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Date:      Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:54:47 -0500
From:      tcobb@staff.circle.net
To:        tom@uniserve.com, ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Out of file descriptor error 3.1-BETA
Message-ID:  <A0CFA284C004D211B7EE0060082F32A412E1D1@freya.circle.net>

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I can confirm that I also got this on my first reboot
after installation of 3.1-19990214-BETA.  It dumped me
to single-user mode, and a pstat -T showed about 
1000 free descriptors at the time.

-Troy Cobb
 Circle Net, Inc.
 http://www.circle.net

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Tom [mailto:tom@uniserve.com]
>   Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:31 PM
>   To: O. Hartmann
>   Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>   Subject: Re: Out of file descriptor error 3.1-BETA
>   
>   
>   On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, O. Hartmann wrote:
>   
>   > What is going wrong? What does the error ".: Out of file 
>   descriptor"
>   > mean? Where is the place or stage it could occur?
>   
>     It means that some program tried to get a file descriptor 
>   to open a
>   file, and it failed.  You should check the total number of file
>   descriptors with "pstat -T".  The display is "x/y files", where x is
>   currently used number of descriptors, and y is the maximum. 
>    The maximum
>   should be several thousand (especially for servers and 
>   workstations that
>   are going to be running a lot of stuff).
>   
>   > Well, if someone is out there who has any idea, please 
>   give me a sign.
>   > I try to run sendmail to get infos and email ...
>   > 
>   > Best wishes,
>   > 
>   > Gruss O. Hartmann
>   > 
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