From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 20 10:51:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.fortress.org (guardian-ext.fortress.org [199.202.137.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700C514D6A for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@guardian.fortress.org) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA42924; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:50:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andrew@guardian.fortress.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:50:17 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: Bill Vermillion Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curious kernel log messages In-Reply-To: <20000120132601.A3042@bilver.magicnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually, you might have run out of open file handles in the kernel. This is directly affected by the MAXUSERS setting which if not defined is derived from the number of users setting in the kernel using the following forumula MAXFILES = 2 * (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS) See /sys/conf/param.c for how all this stuff is calculated. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bill Vermillion wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:06:37PM -0500, Thus Spake bsdnews: > > > Yes I have, Just this morning I was reading the daily output logs, > > and I got a LOT of this: > > > file: table is full > > file: table is full > > file: table is full > > .... > > > Yet, all the filesystems have more then enough space left. If > > someone has an answer to this, please let me know. > > I've seen this and then found I had no problem later. I think it > was a cron job that ran out of space, and when it aborted it > cleaned up after itself. > > Bill > -- > Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > --- Andrew Webster FULL SERVICE ISP President http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. Access: PPP - SHELL - UUCP - VPN - ... P.O. Box 147 Hosting: WWW - Email - DB - Your Servers - ... C.S.L. QC H4V 2Y3 tel: 514-990-5911 fax: 514-990-9443 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message