From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 14 09:55:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18974 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freya.circle.net (freya.circle.net [209.95.95.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18968 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) From: tcobb@staff.circle.net Received: by freya.circle.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <1PTHLCG8>; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:54:57 -0500 Message-ID: To: tom@uniserve.com, ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Out of file descriptor error 3.1-BETA Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:54:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can confirm that I also got this on my first reboot after installation of 3.1-19990214-BETA. It dumped me to single-user mode, and a pstat -T showed about 1000 free descriptors at the time. -Troy Cobb Circle Net, Inc. http://www.circle.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom [mailto:tom@uniserve.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:31 PM > To: O. Hartmann > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Out of file descriptor error 3.1-BETA > > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > What is going wrong? What does the error ".: Out of file > descriptor" > > mean? Where is the place or stage it could occur? > > It means that some program tried to get a file descriptor > to open a > file, and it failed. You should check the total number of file > descriptors with "pstat -T". The display is "x/y files", where x is > currently used number of descriptors, and y is the maximum. > The maximum > should be several thousand (especially for servers and > workstations that > are going to be running a lot of stuff). > > > Well, if someone is out there who has any idea, please > give me a sign. > > I try to run sendmail to get infos and email ... > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Gruss O. Hartmann > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > harto000@mail.uni-mainz.de > > ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de > > > > i.A. Systemadministration IPAMZLX > > Klimadatenserver des IPA, Unisversitaet Mainz > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message