From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 01:33:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 591A716A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:33:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net (esmtp.webtent.net [208.38.145.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37A643D60 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id 97501EBD5C; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:33:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (esmtp.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24685-05; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:33:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.52] (webtent.org [70.110.70.42]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id 94EDEEBD2F; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:33:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <439398D5.8000401@webtent.net> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:33:09 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Meijome References: <43937915.7020300@webtent.net> <4393906D.5060105@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <4393906D.5060105@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at webtent.net Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Too many files crashing services X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: robert@webtent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:33:18 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > [...] > >> Dec 4 17:54:34 esmtp kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, >> please see tuning(7). > > > man 7 tuning > > So, you think this is what is contributing to my problem? Yeah, I have never ran tunefs on the RAID 5 system running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is this what you are suggesting? Below is my current partitioning, how risky is running tunefs. I'll have to go to the server location of course and want to be sure of what to do and should I wait until a Saturday in case something were to go wrong. From what I've read, I should run 'tunefs -n enable /filesystem' for soft updates? esmtp# df -la Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 1982798 579620 1244556 32% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/da0s1g 17393582 683262 15318834 4% /home /dev/da0s1f 988398 161668 747660 18% /tmp /dev/da0s1d 19834638 4947542 13300326 27% /usr /dev/da0s1e 9914318 8679632 441542 95% /var /dev/da0s1h 95950386 88004097 6986786 93% /data devfs 1 1 0 100% /var/chroot/named/dev -- Robert