From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 23:37:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17496 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ararat.aua.am (aua-gw1.amilink.net [206.106.252.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA17489 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ararat.aua.am ([10.1.0.8]) by ararat.aua.am (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00291 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:43:12 +0500 Received: by ararat.aua.am with Microsoft Mail id <01BC98E6.72505AA0@ararat.aua.am>; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:35:18 +0400 Message-ID: <01BC98E6.72505AA0@ararat.aua.am> From: Igor Mkrtoumian To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: too many files open Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:35:16 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Our local network e-mail is serviced by Mercury. SMTP gateway sends mail to FeeBSD 2.1.0. Lastly very often we receive messages like this: 451 queuename: Cannot create "qfJAA11154" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): Too many open files in system We are shutting down FreeBSD and rebooting it again to overcome the problem. Can anybody help me please with the advice how to solve the problem permanently. Igor Mkrtoumian American University of Armenia