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To: Jason Wright <jason@oozoo.vnet.net>
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Subject: Re: File table full 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:37:07 -0800
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>>From time to time I get a message from the kernel that "fill table is full".
>I checked the system config (1000 files) and all seemed ok, but the message
>still shows up from time to time.
>
>I'm using the FreeBSD box mainly as a mail server (recently switched from
>Linux) and I'm running 2.1.0-RELEASE.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

   The size of the file table is based on 'maxusers' in your kernel config
file. Try increasing that number to a suitable value.

-DG