From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 19 13:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21712 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ms.securenet.net (ms.securenet.net [205.236.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21707 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vandj@securenet.net) Received: from office (office.securenet.net [205.236.147.3]) by ms.securenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA07033 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:37:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981119163238.00be2370@ms.securenet.net> X-Sender: vandj@ms.securenet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:37:42 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jean M. Vandette" Subject: Re: table is full! In-Reply-To: <36548B93.BC30BBA5@ciai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:20 PM 11/19/1998 -0600, you 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 > >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 Rebuild your kernel and increase the maxusers to 50 or 100 this will solve the problem. Regards John M. Vandette ************************************************************************** *SecureNet Information Services Inc. 100 Alexis Nihon Blvd., Suite 283* *(514) 744-4242 Vox (514) 744-1552 Fax St. Laurent, Quebec H4M 2N7 * ********** Providing Quality Public Internet access since 1994************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message