From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 10 10:51:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-26-223-53.mmcable.com [65.26.223.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA4637B403 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8AHpYY36230 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:51:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:51:34 -0500 From: mikea To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File table full? Message-ID: <20010910125134.A36210@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20010910085130.A85237@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> <5.1.0.14.0.20010910125908.02b1e580@marble.sentex.ca> <20010910104318.C85237@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010910104318.C85237@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>; from fred@condo.chico.ca.us on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:43:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:43:18AM -0700, Fred Condo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 08:51 AM 9/10/01 -0700, Fred Condo wrote: > > >Below are extracts of /var/log/messages showing the (sometimes > > >mangled) syslog messages and the output of uname -a (sanitized as to > > >hostname). > > > > What does pstat -T show you for open files ? > > > > ---Mike > > Thanks for the response; here's the info: > > 180/4136 files > 0M/1028M swap space PMJI, but could this be related to the "maxusers" parameter in the kernel config file. This parameter controls the sizing of a number of internal tables, as its description in LINT says, and ISTR seeing just such problems fixed by bumping that parameter in the past. On a busy server, it would not surprise me at all if maxusers needed to be bigger than the default -- perhaps _much_ bigger. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message