Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:11:35 -0500 (EST) From: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running out of files. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960131171034.7694A-100000@aries.ai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960131104522.706J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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.
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