Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:54:01 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: neil@corpex.com (Neil), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions Freebsd) Subject: Re: Named open files Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970115115400.009585b0@sentex.net>
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At 04:26 PM 1/15/97 +0000, Neil wrote: >Hi, > We are running named 4.9.4-P1 under freebsd 2.1.0 on a P166, >The kernel has been recompiled with the following options > >maxusers 64 >options "CHILD_MAX=128" >options "OPEN_MAX=360" > > It also got approx 300 IP numbers ifconfig'd as aliases to the >ep0 ethernet port. > > Now sometimes when named is rebooted, we get the following error. > >named[6931]: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files - exiting > > I assume this has to do with ifconfig and named trying to bind to >too many IP numbers. Now is there a patch for named that we can use? In your named.restart, add something like ulimit -n 1000 This will allow the process to have as many as 1000 files open... ---Mike
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