From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 23:30:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771FD16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F1043D55 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:30:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out002.verizon.net ESMTP <20050120233032.QYJG12052.out002.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:30:32 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9BFC22CE7CA; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:26:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:26:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501202309.j0KN9cBw005559@mail-core.space2u.com> In-Reply-To: <200501202309.j0KN9cBw005559@mail-core.space2u.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501201526.54959.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:30:32 -0600 cc: Joachim Dagerot Subject: Re: "Too many open files" (Critical, have only one session left) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:30:33 -0000 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