From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 22:50:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695C037B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13iVng-0004aN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:48:36 +0300 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:48:36 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: sysctl -w Message-ID: <20001009084836.A8271@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.pico.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 8:26AM up 41 days, 21:17, 6 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.37, 0.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, May I ask one question about sysctl. I get the following msg from the kernel: Oct 9 02:57:06 alouette syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Oct 9 02:57:06 alouette /kernel: file: table is full Oct 9 02:57:14 alouette last message repeated 8 times Oct 9 02:57:16 alouette /kernel: pid 5236 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) So I asked myself, what is the current set value? admin:~$ sysctl kern.maxproc kern.maxproc: 532 ..And decided (maybe against bad judgement??) that I could double the value to be on the safe side... alouette# sysctl -w kern.maxproc=1064 sysctl: oid 'kern.maxproc' is read only alouette# So it is ro! Now what must I do? I attach output of ps -ax (the processes always running in my box) PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? DLs 0:00.00 (swapper) 1 ?? ILs 0:00.01 /sbin/init -- 2 ?? DL 0:00.00 (pagedaemon) 3 ?? DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) 4 ?? DL 0:00.00 (bufdaemon) 5 ?? DL 0:00.06 (syncer) 29 ?? Is 0:00.00 adjkerntz -i 90 ?? Ss 0:00.04 syslogd -s 93 ?? Is 0:00.01 named -u bind -g bind 95 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/portmap 115 ?? Is 0:00.05 inetd -w -W 117 ?? Ss 0:00.01 cron 120 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/lpd 123 ?? Is 0:00.56 /usr/sbin/sshd 168 ?? Is 0:00.24 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto 196 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -q 212 ?? Ss 0:00.06 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 218 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/exim -bd -q30m 226 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/faxq 242 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 243 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 244 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 245 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 246 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd 254 ?? S 0:00.03 /usr/local/libexec/atalkd 258 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/libexec/papd 260 ?? S 0:00.00 /usr/local/libexec/afpd -s /usr/local/etc/AppleVolume 266 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/pptpd 274 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/qpage -q10 278 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/qpage -q10 285 ?? Is 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D 287 ?? Ss 0:00.10 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D 321 ?? I 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty cuaa0 323 ?? S 0:01.25 squid -NsY 324 ?? Is 0:00.00 (unlinkd) (unlinkd) 310 v0 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0 311 v1 Is 0:00.15 -tcsh (tcsh) 331 v1 S+ 0:00.10 telnet siafu 312 v2 Ss 0:00.07 -bash (bash) 390 v2 R+ 0:00.00 ps -ax 313 v3 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 314 v4 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4 315 v5 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5 316 v6 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6 317 v7 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7 318 v9 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv9 319 va Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyva 320 vb Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyvb 295 con- I+ 0:00.09 /usr/local/sbin/snmpd 303 con- I+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/RunCache How do I get the culprit who opens so many files? Thank you gentlemen. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message