From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 17:50:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C6216A4D0 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from goa.freejamaica.servebeer.com (host-212-158-226-199.bulldogdsl.com [212.158.226.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353BF43D60 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raver@hosting.sytes.net) Received: from goa.freejamaica.servebeer.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0A1oRAR006475 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:50:29 GMT (envelope-from raver@hosting.sytes.net) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:23:33 +0000 From: raver To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040110012333.GA74095@goa.freejamaica.servebeer.com> References: <20040108012424.GL650@goa.freejamaica.servebeer.com> <20040109222707.GA35687@goa.freejamaica.servebeer.com> <20040109161948.L24587@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Format=Flowed; DelSp=Yes; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040109161948.L24587@carver.gumbysoft.com> (from dwhite@gumbysoft.com on Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 00:23:06 +0000) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Lines: 42 Subject: Re: Open-motif installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:50:21 -0000 On 01/10/04 00:23:06, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, raver wrote: > > > > You seem to be hitting the # of files resource limit. While this > is > > > running do 'sysctl kern.openfiles' and see if it is getting close > to > > > the > > > value of 'sysctl kern.maxfiles'. If it is then you need to > increase > > > kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc. > > > > > > > I checked kern.maxfilesperproc and its value is 324 by default, so > I > > increase it up to 20000, the same value as kern.maxfiles. > > You may need to use the limit or ulimit command to raise your # of > files > limit for your session after doing this (since it inherits the value > at > process creation). You might also check that to see what the current > setting is. > OK, just setting descriptors limit to the maxfiles and maxfilesperproc kernel value the installation finished succesfully ;-) > I remember running into that limit in the past, the motif build does > something lame that loads a huge number of manpages for some odd > reason. > Thank you so much mate! ### " I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got BSD? " Ricard Pascual Diaz AKA 'raver' raver@hosting.sytes.net