From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:48:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA12773 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12764 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08000; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:48:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing maximum files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I have a server running that needs several hundred connections. Just now > we ran into a problem and the whole box froze (current version is > 2.2.2-R). Logfile: > > Dec 17 14:20:24 ice syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Dec 17 14:20:24 ice /kernel: file: table is full > Dec 17 14:20:24 ice last message repeated 96 times > > And so on. On first glimpse through the kernel config file I can't seem > to find anything to increase the amount of file descriptors. Help? Let me try it in English :-) You need to increase the `maxusers' directive in your kernel configuration. Also see the LINT configuration file for other options to tune. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major