From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 04:49:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA15971 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kiki.arlington.com (kiki.arlington.com [140.174.170.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA15952 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (snatcher@localhost) by kiki.arlington.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA06289 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Zach Copley To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Too many files open?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Recently, I moved my mail server from a Linux system to a FreeBSD 2.2.2 Release system. I keep getting errors about having too many files open. This has happened with both sendmail and pine. It just happened again! This time majordomo was queueing messages with bulk_mailer to send out to a mailling list. The list has a couple hundred people on it. Then poof: Aug 18 04:21:50 kiki sendmail[5880]: EAB05880: SYSERR(UID1): queueup: cannot create data temp file dfEAB05880, uid=0: Too many open files in system What gives? How many files am I allowed to open? Is there any hope? Please help me. I don't want to retreat back to Linux for the mail. BTW, in case it helps, the system is a P-120 with Adaptec 7880 SCSI, a 1 gig SCSI Quantum drive, 32-megs RAM, setup with easy install defaults, kernel developer (no X). Sendmail is 8.8.7. Zach -- .^....^. snatcher@pigdog.org ! .\/. ! http://www.pigdog.org (. oo .) ~RoR-Alucard~ `{""}'