Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:30:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file table full - consequences and do I have to reboot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251124020.15756-100000@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> In-Reply-To: <20000225113721.A21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Hmmmm... why do you say user limits? This box has been up for a long time and is used only by me. What happened is that I got a lot of mail over a few days and read it using pine. Then this am opened kmail and starting deleleting mesages from there - I keep two copies of incoming mails via a procmail account. After deleting about 100 messages kmail died. No core dump. Looked at dmesg and found file table full. Using the default /etc/login.conf :openfiles=unlimited:\ Is there a way to fix this without rebooting? Thanks Jeff On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> [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 P.S. the port of lsof is a bit out of date 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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