Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:35:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Mike Alich <hostmaster@cctinc.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Table Full Message-ID: <19990812153515.A72708@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <37B31D59.3A39D3D2@cctinc.net>; from "Mike Alich" on Thu Aug 12 15:15:37 GMT 1999 References: <37B31D59.3A39D3D2@cctinc.net>
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In the last episode (Aug 12), Mike Alich said: > Can anyone tell me how to increase the number of allowed files open in > the system? > > About every week or so I get an error "file: table is full" and it go > one for a few seconds to a few mins. How can I track down what is > causing this? I think it might be a run away cgi or something. "sysctl kern.maxfiles" will print the size of the file table. You can raise this at runtime by running "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000" or whatever you want. You will probably want to recompile your kernel with a higher "maxusers" value, though (try using double the current value). "maxusers" affects some other variables that need to be raised for machines used as server. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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