Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:10:28 -0500 (EST) From: Barrett Richardson <ratbert@phoenix.aye.net> To: Brian Scott <slipmat@ciai.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: table is full! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981119190446.21265A-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <36548B93.BC30BBA5@ciai.net>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, 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 > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > Try a 'sysctl -a | grep maxfiles' before and after you have applied the kernel changes a couple of folks suggested in this thread. You can set them by 'sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=xxxxx' or 'sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=xxxx'. Somebody also suggested looking at per-user limits in login.conf, if you have to change it there do a 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after you edit that file. - Barrett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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