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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: Too many open files in system 
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:03:25 +0200
From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Re. an httpd problem you posted ...

>     In all cases, the common problem is "too many open files in
>  system".  The httpd error log shows CGI scripts failing for the same
>  reason.  Also, I see this in the error log:

I got that too again while I was asleep, on my host it's usually
as an overnight make of ports has gone recursive on ncftp failing
& my abort not letting it realise, 
	( I use env. var. NCFTP=abort & abort binary is from
	main() { abort() ; }

Maybe something other than httpd is consuming your file descriptor table ?

Julian S