From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 14:10:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377BE37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 11F7F6A909 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:10:38 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010112230639.0482c5c0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:09:25 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: file table full In-Reply-To: <004101c07ce3$5a226d80$0200fea9@infowest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This is a snipping from /var/log/messages: > >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 last message repeated 3 times >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 /kernel: file: table is full >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 last message repeated 3 times >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 /kernel: file: table is full >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 last message repeated 3 times >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 /kernel: file: table is full >Jan 10 16:56:43 refresh2 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > >How can I tell what program is leaving these files open? ports: lsof If you need in fact more file table space, man sysctl sysctl -a Of interest: # sysctl -a | grep maxfil kern.maxfiles: 1064 kern.maxfilesperproc: 1064 Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 T9B for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message