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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:28:48 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Kondie <kondwani@malawi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dmesg
Message-ID:  <20000909132848.T69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c01992$3507d800$8da894d0@galaxy>; from kondwani@malawi.net on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:55PM %2B0200
References:  <000801c01992$3507d800$8da894d0@galaxy>

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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:55PM +0200, Kondie wrote:
> Help.
> 
> I am a newbie to Unix sys adm. I took a look at my dmesg.yesterday file and found the following lines:
> 
> : 208.148.169.47 moved from 00:c0:7b:6d:68:10 to 00:c0:7b:6c:dd:aa
> arp: 208.148.169.180 moved from 00:c0:7b:6c:dd:aa to 00:c0:7b:6d:68:10
> arp: 208.148.169.96 moved from 00:c0:7b:6d:68:10 to 00:c0:7b:6c:dd:aa
> file: table is full
> file: table is full
> file: table is full 
> 
> The lines continued with "file: table is full".
> 
> I do not understand what is happening at all with both the "moved from" line and the "table full" lines.
> Can anybody assist?

The ARP messages are telling you that the IP address listed moved from
one hardware address (MAC) to another. This usually indicates the IP
address moved from one machine to another in a short time. It looks
like two machines were playing tag with a couple of IPs.

The full file table means you have too many open files on your
system. This often indicates a runaway process. Find the process, kill
it, figure out how to prevent it from happening again. It also could
be an overloaded system. You then need to reconfigure the system to
have a larger file table. Hmmm... I believe the file table is one of
the things the 'maxusers' line in the kernel configuration helps
control. 
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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