From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 4 19:28:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20228 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 19:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wopr.inetu.net (wopr.inetu.net [207.18.13.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20220 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 19:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by wopr.inetu.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA12089 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 22:36:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 22:36:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Dev Chanchani To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Named Problems (Too Many Open Files) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have been getting error messages in /var/log/messages from named when it tries to do a zone transfer. The error message says the following: Oct 4 17:56:58 black-beast named[8649]: startxfr(somename.com.br -> [10.1.255.10].3901) failing; pipe: Too many open files A pstat -T reveals: root@black-beast:~>pstat -T 511/8232 files 7128 vnodes 60M/139M swap space Now, my question is when is it saying too many open files? The error only seems to be comming from named. Does named have too many files open, and why would it? Thanks in advance!