From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 7:51:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from torrent.hydro.on.ca (beck.Hydro.ON.CA [192.75.134.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F241114CA for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:50:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jim.Service@oht.hydro.on.ca) Received: id KAA07340; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:55:28 -0500 Received: by gateway id KAA29555; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:49:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by gateway id KAA04012; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:49:36 -0500 Received: by gateway id ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:51:13 -0500 Message-ID: From: SERVICE Jim -TS+NP DVLPMT To: "'Darren Farrish'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Kernel problem Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:51:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does ps -auxww report?=A0 The usual cause of this message (at = least in my case) is some process being spawned over and over again and not being terminated properly. =A0 --Jim Service -----Original Message----- From: Darren Farrish [mailto:darren@auto-net.com] Sent: 23 February, 1999 10:13 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel problem we upgraded all of our servers to 2.2.7 in november 98 and since have has some messages that i can not find on a resolution to on the site. when we install we install minimal installation then add popper, apache perl and pdksh (if you can not tell we are a small isp - but running 10 FreeBSD servers). i get the following message and can not find any reference on the site. =A0 Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 /kernel: file: table is full Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Feb 22 16:16:58 ns1 /kernel: file: table is full Feb 22 16:16:59 ns1 last message repeated 9 times Feb 22 16:18:52 ns1 last message repeated 43 times Feb 22 16:20:37 ns1 last message repeated 6 times =A0 any help would be appreciated =A0 darren =A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message