From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 14 10:37:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4998A37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1EIb9T33406; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:37:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214133109.04553a10@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:31:28 -0500 To: "Daniel J. Wright" , From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: "file: table is full" error when it isn't. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does pstat -T actually show you ? ---Mike At 01:18 PM 2/14/02 -0500, Daniel J. Wright wrote: >Hello, > > I'm having troubles with a kernel error: > >/kernel: file: table is full > > I've read up on this error, and everything I've found points to this >having to do with trying to open too many files on the same system. >However, just before the system crashes I'm able to run 'fstat | wc -l' >and see that I'm nowhere near my kernel.maxfiles setting. > > Can somebody tell me if that kernel message could be generated by >something other than having too many files open? Is there a better method >than using fstat to determine how many files are open? > >Thanks in advance for any help. > >-Dan > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message