From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Feb 7 20:26:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net (dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.128.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81F723FBF for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16069 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2000 04:27:19 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 16018 invoked by uid 0); 8 Feb 2000 04:27:19 -0000 Received: from jdialup226.dnvr.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.240.226) by dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net with SMTP; 8 Feb 2000 04:27:19 -0000 Message-ID: <389F9E29.D17C85DF@uswest.net> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 21:40:09 -0700 From: Rajeev Jayavant X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Cc: Parag Patel Subject: Framemaker mystery - a solution Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The short story: edit /etc/login.conf and specify a value for openfiles. I can reliably make Framemaker fail or run by toggling between openfiles=unlimited and openfiles=64. Similar results can be had by using "limit descriptors" under [t]csh. I didn't experiment enough to find the magic limit for openfiles that triggers the failure. This is on a machine that was upgraded to 3.4-release from the WC CDROM. It's probably not pure 3.4-release since I've done upgrades from 2.2.8->3.1->3.2->3.3 without reformating the disk. The long story is that I first tried running Framemaker after upgrading 3.3 to 3.4 but before building a custom kernel or merging file in /etc. It worked - but then it started exhibiting the failures described on this mailing list after I rebooted the machine. I narrowed the culprit down to login.conf by backing out all of the changes one at a time. As to why the openfiles=unlimited setting causes the problem - I'll leave that to the kernel experts on this mailing list. Rajeev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message