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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: table is full!
In-Reply-To: <36548B93.BC30BBA5@ciai.net> from Brian Scott at "Nov 19, 98 03:20:19 pm"
To: slipmat@ciai.net (Brian Scott)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:30:19 -0800 (PST)
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Brian Scott wrote:
> I've had this machine (HP-LH3) for about 5 months now and its making me
> crazy!  I had BSDi on it before and replaced it with FreeBSD because it
> supported the onboard SCSI controller.  Now its all installed and uses
> the 2 P400's just fine, splendid, finaly I can relax...  Not quite, now
> the kernel is freaking out after about 2 days of uptime, I reboot then
> its fine for about 2 more days.  the errors I'm seeing are..
> 
> /kernel: file: table is full   #this is the first error
> kernel: cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> /dev/console: Too many open files in system
> /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system

	please check the value of maxusers in your kernel config file.
	its in /sys/i386/conf.  the default value is too small
	for you needs, just bump it to 100.
jmb

> 
> I have compiled the kernel sever different times now, trying to remedy
> this but its still happening.  The machine is running about 150
> processes but should be able to run them (the bsdi ran them fine, just
> didn't like the scsi controller).
> 
> anyone have any help?
> 
> Brian
> 
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