From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 15:20:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10785 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.89.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10776 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.5/8.6.10) with SMTP id SAA19123; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:19:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:19:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson To: Doug White cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Table full In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > > 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? > > Not really. You want to probably tweak CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX. I was unsure if this was a user hitting a by-uid limit on files, or if the actual system table for all file descriptors was being hit? Is there any way to find out a) if it was a specific user or the system, and b) if it was a specific user, who it was so I could find out what program ran into the problem? Thanks, Robert Watson