From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 22:27:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09656 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09649 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25184; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:27:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Kulp cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: file: table is full In-Reply-To: <199803042010.MAA00387@board67.cruzers.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, David Kulp wrote: > I frequently experience the 'table is full' problem, and I can't track > it down reliably. Recently, it was suggested to look for runaway > processes. > First, I found that sometimes Navigator 4 had gone ballistic occupying > 90% of the CPU while "doing nothing". So beware. Thus why I don't use Netscape4 :) > But netscape is not always running when this problem arises. Nor do I > think that the system limits in my kernel are too low. I checked out > sys/conf/param.c and deduced that a MAXUSER setting of 10 allows 6400 > open file descriptors. That sounds like plenty to me. Not really; I don't think descriptors are recycled immediately. 10 is really small for a busy system; it doesn't hurt to bump it (unless you're running 4MB of RAM, and then you **really** should buy more memory while it's cheap again). > So, I'm still wondering whether there's some way of determing how many > open descriptors each process has. Surely this info is in a data > structure somewhere, no? Is there an app or functions to access this? pstat -T Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message