From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 4 07:28:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00442 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00425 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:28:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA58942; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:27:53 GMT Message-ID: <36B9BC78.DD04A3B1@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:27:52 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jwenger@ac-ent.com CC: FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: Error Messages References: <000101be5040$69fcd960$4500a8c0@slopoke.scum.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jack Wenger wrote: > > I got the following in my "security" output email today: > > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 last message repeated 3 times > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 /kernel: file: table is full > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 last message repeated 3 times > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 /kernel: file: table is full > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 last message repeated 3 times > Feb 3 15:53:58 br01 /kernel: file: table is full > Feb 3 15:54:21 br01 last message repeated 221 times > I don't see anything bizarre other than the table is full message. You've run out of file handles (as opposed to space on the disk)... Edit your kernel config, and increase the 'maxusers' setting in the kernel, rebuild it / install the new kernel and you should be fine... As a typical guide, with 2.2.X double the number of maxusers (up to AFAIK a maximum of 256) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message