From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 17: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alexander.pentalpha.com.hk (alexander.pentalpha.com.hk [210.176.109.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B788F14CFA for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@pentalpha.com.hk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by alexander.pentalpha.com.hk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA48097 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 08:58:40 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from danny@pentalpha.com.hk) Received: from jessica.pentalpha.com.hk(10.0.0.8) via SMTP by alexander.pentalpha.com.hk, id smtpdH48095; Sat Nov 6 08:58:31 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by jessica.pentalpha.com.hk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA07405 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 08:58:30 +0800 (CST) Received: from 001.mis.pentalpha.com.hk(10.0.0.168), claiming to be "001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk" via SMTP by jessica.pentalpha.com.hk, id smtpdKC7402; Sat Nov 6 08:58:22 1999 Message-ID: <005801bf27f2$05c92360$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk> From: "Danny Wong" To: Subject: file:table is full Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 08:58:22 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I send about 1700 email to the internal mail server, I get the following messages: Nov 5 19:09:57 syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:09:58 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:09:58 /kernel: file: table is full Nov 5 19:09:54 smtpfwdd[70788]: Couldn't open spool file smtpdKd2971! (Too many open files in system) Nov 5 19:09:56 sendmail[70764]: TAA70740: SYSERR(UID66): queuename: Cannot create "qfTAA70764" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:09:59 /kernel: file: table is full Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full There are 197M swap space and 32M memory in the system. It is a FreeBSD 3.3 stable system. How can I fix this problem? Thanks ! Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message