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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:30:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Dale Welch <freebsd@netw.com>
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Subject: Re: Error:    /kernel:file:table is full
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Dale Welch wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE.
> I have 64 meg ram and a 4g ide hard disk.
> 
> Two hours after rebooting my machine i got the following message:
> 
> Error:    /kernel:file:table is full
> 
> what causes this?

The system running out of file descriptors.

Run `ps -ax' and make sure there aren't any runaway processes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major