From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 13 11:13:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ignatz.north.gencon.com (ignatz.north.gencon.com [199.33.251.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D3214C85 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@kolia.north.gencon.com) Received: from kolia.north.gencon.com (kolia.north.gencon.com [199.33.251.73]) by ignatz.north.gencon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06107 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:13:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3763F4D4.4D17E03F@kolia.north.gencon.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:13:40 -0400 From: "Nikolai E. Wendorf" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: open files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings All, A friend recently asked about the following: System is 3.2-RELEASE, and this keeps coming up in /var/log/messages: Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Kernel was built for 32 users, it is a firewall only machine with 0 users. On previous 2.2.8 system I used to build the kernel with: options CHILD_MAX=384 options OPEN_MAX=512 I believe the answer lies in login.conf but since I've not gone to the 3. yet I thought a sanity check was in order. Thanks, Nick ******************************************************************************* Nikolai E. Wendorf, KJ4RD nick@kolia.north.gencon.com ******************************************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message