From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 23 15:28:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEC837B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from boots2 ([24.0.178.21]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010123232554.NMWI21371.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@boots2>; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:25:54 -0800 From: "Craig Burgess" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: Subject: RE: msg: '/kernel: file: table is full' Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:33:37 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <14957.63811.45813.958530@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks Andrew, Upping maxusers to 256 seems to have done the trick - i don't see any kernel errors noted in /var/log/messages and dmesg output looks sane again. (FWOW, #sysctl kern.maxusers reports 8283 with the new kernel.) I have not started anything new running for many months and it seems strange that things would go so peculiar just after new source and rebuilding to 4.2... Oh well best wishes, craig -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:38 PM To: Craig Burgess Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: msg: '/kernel: file: table is full' Craig Burgess writes: > > Obviously something is not right. I send this in case it means anything to > anyone and will rebuild the kernel with maxusers at 64 (up from 32) - though Your messagebuffer problem looks like some sort of memory corruption, to be honest. > it would seem that '32 users' should be sufficient for a machine which has > virtually no users other than the processes which are running. > A lot of resources are sized by the number of "users" 32 is not anywhere near anough for a heavily loaded server, as yours appears to be. If you're doing something that's going to run you out of open files, try 256 or 512. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message