From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 07:58:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA18668 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA18652 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.89.13]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA18633 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.5/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA09332 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:52:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <335CD09E.ADE05CAC@fledge.watson.org> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:52:14 -0400 From: Robert Watson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3C (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: File Table full X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yesterday afternoon, I got this kernerl message/etc in my messages: Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge /kernel: file: table is full Apr 21 12:09:18 fledge last message repeated 3 times Apr 21 12:10:31 fledge last message repeated 3 times Apr 21 12:16:55 fledge su: robert to root on /dev/ttyp2 I currently have maxusers=128 in my kernel config -- can I explicitely increase file handles on the system, or should I just increase maxusers? Does maxusers change the file descriptor table size? -- Robert Watson robert@fledge.watson.org, rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu