From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 08:51:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA24262 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 08:51:01 -0700 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24152 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 08:47:16 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-7) id AA13199; Wed, 10 May 95 17:46:52 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id RAA13407; Wed, 10 May 1995 17:58:18 +0200 Message-Id: <199505101558.RAA13407@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: System crash due to "file table full" To: marques@vax.ox.ac.uk (Jose Marques) Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 17:58:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) In-Reply-To: from "Jose Marques" at May 10, 95 10:50:44 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 685 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Last night my system stopped responding because the file table became > full. Can anybody advise me how I can increase the size of the file > table if possible. Happened to me, too. In the kernel config file increase maxusers to some higher value, e.g. 20, and build a new kernel. What does sysctl kern.maxfiles sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc yield? > > -- > Jose Marques > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950507 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995 0507 #0: Sun May 7 18:08:05 MET DST 1995 root@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.d e:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386