From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 10 10:56:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-64-163-110-180.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [64.163.110.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C422F37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8AHukr00158 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:56:46 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File table full? Message-ID: <20010910105646.D85237@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> <20010910125134.A36210@mikea.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010910125134.A36210@mikea.ath.cx>; from mikea@mikea.ath.cx on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:51:34PM -0500 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 12:51:34PM -0500, mikea wrote: > 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. As stated in the original message, MAXUSERS is set to 128. I still haven't been able to detect a pattern to the behavior, nor can I understand why some syslog messages are corrupted (see orig message for that, too). Thanks for the response, though. -- Fred Condo - fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Stop censoring Felten & Ferguson. http://www.macfergus.com/niels/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message