From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 12:11:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20646 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (Central.TanSoft.COM [208.194.145.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA20622 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rwm@mpgn.com) Received: from devious.Tansoft.com (Devious.TanSoft.COM [208.194.145.10]) by Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA16430 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:10:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199711192010.PAA16430@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> X-Sender: rwm@central.tansoft.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro 4.0 Beta 7 (build 224) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:10:13 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rob Miracle Subject: Wierd File Descriptor problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have several programs that have been coming up with erratic problems of late. The typical error is a failed select with an invalid file descriptor. We see messages pop into the syslog about "Resource temporarily unavilable". Our file descriptor limit is at 2088 and we can get about 1800 open on a straight machine (no software other than the OS and our FD sucker program running). We are running the latest MSQL and a lot of backend daemons. I don't know why we would hit a limit, but something is amok. What does "Resource temporarily unavaiable" mean? Is it file descriptor related? Any help would be appreciated. This machine is running 2.2.1. Thanks Rob -- Rob Miracle Tantalus Inc. Be patient or be a patient. -- Anton Devious