From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 9 10:10:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (spirit.jaded.net [216.94.113.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A8414C83 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05393; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:09:39 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: James Howard Cc: Chris Costello , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file system full Message-ID: <19991009130939.E9008@spirit.jaded.net> References: <19991008182545.W86678@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with | > the file system. | | Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server | that will spontaneously do this then crash. | | Jamie If you're csh'ish, you can use the ``limit'' command to see what your allowed openfiles are. You can raise this with ``unlimit''. You will also want to look at a few kernel options if the above doesn't fix it. -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message