From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 01:42:08 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 E79B516A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:42:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8330943D49 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:42:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 15825 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2005 12:42:00 +1100 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Dec 2005 12:41:59 +1100 Message-ID: <43939AE2.90107@meijome.net> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:41:54 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert@webtent.com References: <43937915.7020300@webtent.net> <4393906D.5060105@meijome.net> <439398D5.8000401@webtent.net> In-Reply-To: <439398D5.8000401@webtent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Too many files crashing services X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:42:09 -0000 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > 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? No, you are running out of maxfiles, as per "kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid ..." . http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html B