From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 8: 6:15 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 08:06:13 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8424D37B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:06:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6465317A; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:06:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:06:12 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Bruijnes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keeps crashing Message-ID: <20010105170612.B78892@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Bruijnes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <934mla$pg2$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <934mla$pg2$1@news1.xs4all.nl>; from bruijnes@xs4all.nl on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:44:58PM +0000 Sender: edwin@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:44:58PM +0000, Bruijnes wrote: > Jan 5 06:43:00 office /kernel: file: table is full See if you can find out which process is eating all the file-handles by using lsof: [~] edwin@kludge>/usr/local/sbin/lsof | awk '{ print $1 }' | uniq -c | sort -n 1 COMMAND 6 sleep 7 sh 7 sh 8 sort [...] 53 xmms 56 navigator 60 ssh 523 everybudd Woops... (this is not my current system but the lsof output of something a couple of days ago :-) Then, seeing what's going wrong with that process (i.e. why is it eating so many file-handles) This could btw be a complete wrong approach since I have no idea how many users you have or what your system is doing for normal life. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message