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From: Alexander <amour@blade.elitsat.net>
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Subject: ppp opens too many processes causes heavy system load
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On jul 28 and 29 one of my clients had problem with his leased line.
He couldn't connect for the 2 days. My server is configured to answering
mode so the machine answered the whole 2 days. And on the second day (jul
29) the server actually *died*. Later when I checked the logs I got the
following thing:
(part of /var/log/all.log)
...
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper /kernel: file: table ile: table is full
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper /kernel: file: table is full
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper last message repeated 42 times
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper /kernel: le: table is full
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper /kernel: file: table is full
Jul 29 22:51:27 shaper last message repeated 42 times
...
and this keeps on and on.

ppp configuration for this client is:

client1:
	set device /dev/cuaa0
	set phone
	set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
\"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&F&C1&D2X1M1L2 OK \\dATA TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
	set timeout 180
	set ifaddr 1.2.3.29 1.2.3.36

So my question is, how can this happen ? Is my ppp configuration wrong ?
Does freebsd's ppp have problem handling with files ?

P.S. If you know the reason for the "full file table" problem please
answer me as fast as possible.

thanks


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