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List:       freebsd-isp
Subject:    Re: table is full!
From:       Barrett Richardson <ratbert () phoenix ! aye ! net>
Date:       1998-11-20 0:10:28
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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
> 
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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



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