From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 11: 7:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EE137BA0D for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA09440; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:37:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:37:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeff Gray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file table full - consequences and do I have to reboot? Message-ID: <20000225113721.A21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:37:50AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jeff Gray [000225 07:09] wrote: > Running 3.3 and kde > > Got a file table full from kmail [mail client for kde] > > So, I increased the maxfiles [to avoid rebuilding the kernal and > increasing maxusers at this time] > > # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000 > kern.maxfiles: 1064 -> 10000 > > Still cannot open kmail. All else appears to be running normally and > correctly. > > -do I have to reboot to fix this? > > -are there any consequences of of ignoring this [other than the loss of > kmail]? man 5 login.conf i think you may be bumping into user limits, not operating system limits. > > Thanks > Jeff > P.S. the port of lsof is a bit out of date > ===> Configuring for lsof-4.42 > Unknown FreeBSD release: 3.3-RELEASE > Assuming FreeBSD 2.x > make then, naturally, fails hmm, you'll want to cvsup your ports collection, see the FreeBSD handbook on how to do that. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message