Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:44:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Mike Doyle <relyod@cooperationireland.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error messages in dmesg Message-ID: <20030701153922.G24709-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030701143132.02821cd0@199.107.2.1>
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Mike Doyle wrote: > I have some messages appearing in my dmesg output and in the security log > that concerns me: > > > liffey.cooperationireland.org kernel log messages: > > > ile: table is full > > > file: table is full > > > file: table is full > > > file: table is full > > Any clues as to what might cause this ? Does it mean I've run out of inodes or > of file descriptors ? How do I pin down the offending application. > > The server in question has only two roles - it acts as our mail server and > also as a Squid web proxy. The errors mostly seem to have occurred late at > night so it was most likely mail related rather than web-proxy related. You're probably out of descriptors; check the max number with: sysctl kern.maxfiles The number can be enlarged by entering: sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=somelargernumber To make this change permanent, insert kern.maxfiles=somelargernumber in /etc/sysctl.conf. rmonitor from /usr/ports/sysutils/rmonitor is able to log utilization of file descriptors and may help to analyze what happens. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany
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