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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: too many open file
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:15:48 -0500
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Type in pstat -T

It will tell you how many open files your system has. If you are hitting
the max, either increase MAXUSERS in your kernel, or adjust the two =
system
mibs accordingly

kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfilesperproc

	---Mike

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:30:09 +0000 (UTC), in =
sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Hi all
>
>After checking message log, I discover the following
>thousand of messages
>
>
>Oct 30 06:01:13 mail named[30322]: can't exec
>/usr/sbin/named-xfer: Too many open files
>
>please help me, why and is there attract to my system
>
>how do i stop it?
>
>Tks
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