From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 11:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com [24.142.61.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE0637B7DB for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com) Received: from localhost (jwg2@localhost) by cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA60898; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:30:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file table full - consequences and do I have to reboot? In-Reply-To: <20000225113721.A21720@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 Hmmmm... why do you say user limits? This box has been up for a long time and is used only by me. What happened is that I got a lot of mail over a few days and read it using pine. Then this am opened kmail and starting deleleting mesages from there - I keep two copies of incoming mails via a procmail account. After deleting about 100 messages kmail died. No core dump. Looked at dmesg and found file table full. Using the default /etc/login.conf :openfiles=unlimited:\ Is there a way to fix this without rebooting? Thanks Jeff On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jeff Gray [000225 07:09] wrote: > > Running 3.3 and kde > > > > Got a file table full from kmail [mail client for kde] > > > > So, I increased the maxfiles [to avoid rebuilding the kernal and > > increasing maxusers at this time] > > > > # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000 > > kern.maxfiles: 1064 -> 10000 > > > > Still cannot open kmail. All else appears to be running normally and > > correctly. > > > > -do I have to reboot to fix this? > > > > -are there any consequences of of ignoring this [other than the loss of > > kmail]? > > man 5 login.conf > > i think you may be bumping into user limits, not operating system > limits. > > > > > Thanks > > Jeff > > P.S. the port of lsof is a bit out of date > > ===> Configuring for lsof-4.42 > > Unknown FreeBSD release: 3.3-RELEASE > > Assuming FreeBSD 2.x > > make then, naturally, fails > > hmm, you'll want to cvsup your ports collection, see the FreeBSD > handbook on how to do that. > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message