From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 8:16:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.96.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA73037B5F6 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:16:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from baby.int.thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA50783; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:16:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from thehousleys.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baby.int.thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08932; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <38BBF0D3.6ED0DFD3@thehousleys.net> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:16:19 -0500 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > > Unfortunately, none of this seems to be related to my problem of > having the error message described, or how I can eliminate this error > message. > housley@cat:~/work/monitors {34} sysctl -a | grep -i file kern.maxfiles: 2088 kern.bootfile: /kernel kern.maxfilesperproc: 2088 kern.corefile: %N.core p1003_1b.mapped_files: 0 It looks like updating kern.maxfiles and/or kern.maxfilesperproc should do the trick. What are the limits set in /etc/login.conf?? Jim -- Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message