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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:07:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jay Tribick <lists@fastnet.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   File table is full..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304110432.19964A-100000@ns0.fast.net.uk>

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Hi all..

Recently, we've been noticing that our main server is generating kernel
messages saying:

file table is full

I've tried altering some options in the kernel configuration file and
recompiling it etc. (noteably CHILD_MAX & OPEN_MAX which i've set at
1000) but we're still getting the same error messages every day after
the server's been up for 5-6 hours.

Quite a few processes are running on this server including sendmail,
radiusd, ipop3d, named all of which are used quite intensively so
there will be a lot of open files in the system.

Is the file table setting #DEFINE'd anywhere, if so, where??

Thanks in advance,

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