From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 07:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yip.org (yip.org [142.154.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24181 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:09:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by yip.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16435; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:08:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Sean Lerner , Milky Puppy Subject: Worrisome kernel messages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message