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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:04:01 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file table full   - consequences and do I have to reboot?
Message-ID:  <20000225120400.D21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251124020.15756-100000@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com>; from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:30:15AM -0800
References:  <20000225113721.A21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002251124020.15756-100000@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com>

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* Jeff Gray <jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> [000225 12:00] wrote:
> 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.  

Y'know this could just be a buggy program leaking filedescriptors,
but...

> 
> 
> Using the default /etc/login.conf
>    :openfiles=unlimited:\     
> 
> 
> Is there a way to fix this without rebooting?
> 

There should be, what does 'ulimit -a' say?

-Alfred


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