Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:26:53 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Joachim Dagerot <jd@dagerot.com> Subject: Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left) Message-ID: <200501201526.54959.reso3w83@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200501202309.j0KN9cBw005559@mail-core.space2u.com> References: <200501202309.j0KN9cBw005559@mail-core.space2u.com>
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On Thursday 20 January 2005 03:09 pm, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I have got it before and took appropriate steps using the ideas and > tips from you guys. Now I have it again: > > Current situation on my head-less system is that I do have a single > SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticated as ROOT but as > an ordinary user. > > When I try a "ls" I get : > > $ ls > ls: .: Too many open files in system > > Trying a su gives: > $ su > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open "/usr/lib/libutil.so.3" > > > I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown so I > rather want to reboot the machine manually. I certainly need som help > here and also more help on how to avoid this problem in the future. > I don't remember a previous message from you, but here is a link you may find helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 -Mike
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