From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 13:52:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA17236 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from roguetrader.com (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA17229 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:52:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandon@roguetrader.com) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00542 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:52:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:52:14 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Increasing maximum files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a server running that needs several hundred connections. Just now we ran into a problem and the whole box froze (current version is 2.2.2-R). Logfile: Dec 17 14:20:24 ice syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Dec 17 14:20:24 ice /kernel: file: table is full Dec 17 14:20:24 ice last message repeated 96 times And so on. On first glimpse through the kernel config file I can't seem to find anything to increase the amount of file descriptors. Help? -Brandon