Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:04:01 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file table full - consequences and do I have to reboot? Message-ID: <20000225120400.D21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251124020.15756-100000@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com>; from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:30:15AM -0800 References: <20000225113721.A21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251124020.15756-100000@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com>
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* Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> [000225 12:00] wrote: > 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. Y'know this could just be a buggy program leaking filedescriptors, but... > > > Using the default /etc/login.conf > :openfiles=unlimited:\ > > > Is there a way to fix this without rebooting? > There should be, what does 'ulimit -a' say? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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