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Subject: Re: Running out of files.
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> > 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.
> 

Would it be possible to increase the number of file handles to say 5000 
so that it could be rebooted once every 3 months or so?

:)

Thanks,

-Jerry.