From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 22:41:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226BB37B417 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936422B74A; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:41:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 81C3E795; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:40:41 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:40:41 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Alexander S. Volchenkov" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! How can I increase number of open files? Message-ID: <20020204174041.M1599@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , "Alexander S. Volchenkov" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <161691141.20020204093245@uh.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <161691141.20020204093245@uh.ru>; from volax@uh.ru on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:32:45AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:32:45AM +0300, Alexander S. Volchenkov wrote: > Hello! > > Where are too many messages in my FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE system: > > Feb 3 22:00:51 ns syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > > How can I increase number of open files? Two ways: - change the kern.maxfiles setting in sysctl. Or - find out who is eating so many file-descriptors. Use lsof from the ports collection to your benefit. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message