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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:01:30 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        Jonathan Defries <jonathan@corpex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Too many open files
Message-ID:  <20000821090130.A33288@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from jonathan@corpex.com on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:36:52PM %2B0100

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On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Jonathan Defries wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to run a caching nameserver on one of my web servers
> and it keeps complaining:
> 
> socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files
> 
> I have 4 servers with identical hardware, all running 3.5-STABLE
> with the same sort of loads on each, but this is the only one it
> is happening on.
> 
> What's the best thing to do to try and alleviate this? I have
> maxusers set at 256, I've seen mention of a new kernel with a
> couple of extra options, would this be the way to go?
> 
>  - Jonathan
> 
> 

This should probably be on -questions, but... it may be that your
process is running out of open files, not your kernel. See man
ulimit or man login.conf.
-- 
Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us
Not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in
Philadelphia. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, about the Republican Convention.


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