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Date:      Sat, 09 Aug 1997 12:03:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>
To:        Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /kernel: file: table is full
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970809120351.conrads@neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708070929.KAA00638@hawk.gnome.co.uk>

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Have you tried increasing maxusers?

On 07-Aug-97 Chris Stenton wrote:
>
>I've just been trying the new Netscape 4 for FreeBSD on my 2.2-stable
>machine 
>and
>got the following error in the log file.
>
>Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system:
>Too 
>many open files in system
>Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk /kernel: file: table is full
>
>I have the following options set in the kernel
>
>options         "CHILD_MAX=512"
>options         "OPEN_MAX=512"
>
>
>Its a pretty nasty error as the hard disk sounds like someone got into the
>system  and started doing an rm -r /. This fear is reinforced when you
>can't 
>run
>any more processes to find out what is going on. All you can do is hit the
>reset button and wait to see whats left of your OS. When you find its
>still
>there you go and close the curtains and have a lie down :-)
>
>
>Chris

--
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/



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