Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:32:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: philip@adhesivemedia.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /kernel: file: table is full ??? Message-ID: <200104260032.f3Q0Wem38959@explorer.rsa.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104251456190.29113-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104251501130.29480-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write:
>So naturally, as soon as I post a question I start to find some answers on
>my own... *sigh*
>I can apparently adjust the kern.maxfiles variable as the FAQ suggests to
>whatever I want. It says that it might need to go as high as 10,000 for
>busy servers (which mine isn't). Mine is currently set to 2088.
>So my new questions are:
>- is there any risk in raising it really high?
>- how can I tell which processes are using a lot of files?
"pstat -T" shows you the global usage, "fstat" lists all file
descriptors, sorted by process. "lsof" (in ports) can give you some
more info, especially names of open files.
$.02,
/Mikko
>Thanks!
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>> Hi all -
>> Recently I've been getting this error message. The box is doing
>> quite a few different things (mail, apache, postgres, mysql, etc..), but
>> not enough in my mind to be getting this error for a legitimate reason.
>>
>> What I need is information on how to track down what process is causing
>> the problem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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