Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:41:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I lose mail? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908250941010.768-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <37C357F5.CA7FC470@nisser.com>
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I would think it would have not been able to accept anything while out of file handles, and therefore would have spooled someplace till your box was back in business On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > I was toying aroud with windowmanagers and VNC when it happenned... The > system ran out of file handles. Symptoms of this grave illness were: > > too many open files in system > nisser: kernel: file : table is full > > As well as several other assorted complaints among which where panicy > messages from sendmail. Which of course makes me wonder whether I did > lose any mail or did it yet manage to convey the imminent failure to > the other party? > > Also the params of my basically stock and just CVSupped 3.2 system are: > > nisser:/$ sysctl -a | grep files > kern.maxfiles: 360 > kern.maxfilesperproc: 360 > p1003_1b.mapped_files: 0 > nisser:/$ > > Now the 360 files per process looks reasonable to me, but 360 files > systemwide? No way. This occurred with just 3 users active (plus two > VNC sessions, make it 5) most tunning KDE. Not really an excessive > load as far as Unix systems go, I would say. Yet clearly enough to > exhaust the max. file handle kernel space. The system of course > runs sendmail, apache, ircd, whatever, though in a very modest way. > > The question now becomes what is the best way to up the limit? I > could give "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=3600" to set it to a somewhat > more egrecious value, though not generous by far. Would it survive, > say, a reboot? What are my other options? Are there more of these > kind of gotchas? I mean, I can look at the output of sysctl -a, but > that doesn't necessarily mean I grock it. Sure, I could dive into > my stack of old Dr. Dobbsen but ... well, whose to say I'ld grock that? > > Roelof > > -- > Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. > Telekabel home http://nisser.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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