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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Sean Lerner <sean@yip.org>, Milky Puppy <milky@yip.org>
Subject:   Worrisome kernel messages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902094933.16282B-100000@yip.org>

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I woke up this morning to the following section in the output of the daily
script:

pi kernel log messages:
> system full
> file: table is full
> file: table is full
[repeat 50 times]

Looking in /var/log/messages:

Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system:
Too many open files in system
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi last message repeated 3 times
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
[repeat above 3 lines about 20 times]
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi last message repeated 3 times
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
Sep  1 22:18:07 pi last message repeated 36 times
Sep  1 22:18:06 pi sendmail[13921]: WAA13918: SYSERR(UID0): queueup:
cannot create queue temp file tfWAA13918, uid=0: Bad file descriptor

The system is running fine at the moment.  I've never seen the message
"file: table is full", and don't really know how I can fix it.  Anyone
have any idea as to what I can do about it?  This is an old -STABLE
snapshot, no X, acts as a light-usage web/mail/shell server (yip.org &
infiltration.org, for those that care).

FreeBSD pi.yip.org 2.2-971207-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-971207-SNAP #0: Mon Mar 23
15:42:32 EST 1998     melange@pi.yip.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PI  i386

(the kernel's had a few security patches applied)

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a       31775    16356    12877    56%    /
/dev/wd0s1f    801639   628076   109432    85%    /usr
/dev/wd0s1e    118959     8744   100699     8%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

If people want more info, or if they think I should direct this to
freebsd-stable, just let me know.

melange@yip.org - "Slightly tacky but completely entertaining"


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