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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:48:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running out of files.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960131104522.706J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130212558.1699A-100000@aries.ai.net>

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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Network Coordinator wrote:

> 
> When a certain BSD machine is running for ~20 days or so, the system 
> unexpectedly hangs. Over the days/weeks the number of "files" reported 
> by pstat -T slowly shows fewer and fewer free files. Basically this 
> machine just does web serving. Any ideas why this is happening?

Did you take a look at ps ax and made sure that there weren't any errant 
httpd's running?

On high-usage servers, the system should probably be rebooted every so 
often, like weekly.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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