From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 19 16:12:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14079 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix (phoenix.aye.net [206.185.8.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA14071 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ratbert@phoenix.aye.net) Received: (qmail 22521 invoked by uid 2800); 20 Nov 1998 00:10:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 1998 00:10:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:10:28 -0500 (EST) From: Barrett Richardson To: Brian Scott cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: table is full! In-Reply-To: <36548B93.BC30BBA5@ciai.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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