From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 7:45:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C745D37BED6 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12lBDn-0005V7-00; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:54:19 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12lBDn-0007nY-00; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:54:19 +0100 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:54:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Alexander Werner Skwar Cc: Questions about FreeBSD Subject: Re: freebsd /kernel: file: table is full Message-ID: <20000428145419.Y86507@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000428145324.A5601@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000428145324.A5601@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Werner Skwar wrote: > What does this error message mean: > > Apr 28 14:37:20 freebsd exim[6126]: 2000-04-28 14:37:20 12lA1I-0001ao-00 > Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//12lA1I-0001ao-00-D: Too many > open files in system > Apr 28 14:37:21 freebsd last message repeated 2 times > Apr 28 14:37:21 freebsd /kernel: file: table is full > Apr 28 14:37:21 freebsd /kernel: file: table is full > Apr 28 14:37:22 freebsd last message repeated 475 times > Apr 28 14:37:22 freebsd last message repeated 475 times It means you have too many files open simultaneously. Try increasing maxusers in the kernel config and rebuild. You might also be able to adjust it sysctl. 'man sysctl'. The sysctls you want to look at and possibly change are kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message