From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 8: 1:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trost.ravn.no (trost.ravn.no [193.215.220.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3941C12043 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reidarb@ravn.no) Received: from gribb.ravn.no (gribb.ravn.no [193.215.220.237]) by trost.ravn.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA26756; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:00:44 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990223170247.00700a38@trost.ravn.no> X-Sender: reidarb@trost.ravn.no X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:02:48 +0100 To: "Darren Farrish" , From: Reidar Bratsberg Subject: Re: Kernel problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You might want to try and increase "maxusers" and recompile your kernel. A lot of settings are set from this, among them the number of open files you may have (system wide) at any time. Best, Reidar At 09:12 23.02.99 -0600, Darren Farrish wrote: >>>> we upgraded all of our servers to 2.2.7 in november 98 and since have has some messages that i can not find on a resolution to on the site. when we install we install minimal installation then add popper, apache perl and pdksh (if you can not tell we are a small isp - but running 10 FreeBSD servers). i get the following message and can not find any reference on the site. Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 /kernel: file: table is full Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 /kernel: file: table is full Feb 22 16:16:59 ns1 last message repeated 9 times Feb 22 16:18:52 ns1 last message repeated 43 times Feb 22 16:20:37 ns1 last message repeated 6 times any help would be appreciated darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message