From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 3 17:52:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-163.airnet.net [207.242.81.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29077 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00525; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 19:50:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Message-ID: <3616C664.D6F505C8@airnet.net> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 19:50:44 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetchmail Problem References: <36156F6E.5694D744@airnet.net> <19981003133927.A18810@emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > You probably just need to bump maxusers in your kernel config. What > does a pstat -T print? If the current number of files is near the max, > you can adjust it on the fly by running "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=####". > If you don't want to rebuild your kernel, you can stick the sysctl in > rc.local so it runs every time the system is rebooted. > > -Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com % pstat -T 149/360 files 11M/63M swap space It's possible as busy as this machine was that it had run out of files. I had five netscape windows open (32M main memory) and four rxvts. This machine was rather busy when it happened. Come to think of it, those netscape windows were looking at several graphics intensive pages. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message