From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 19:49:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBDA1065670 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hg@queue.to) Received: from pickle.queue.to (pickle.queue.to [71.180.69.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2548FC0C for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 91741 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2011 14:22:46 -0500 Received: from cally.queue.to (172.16.0.6) by pickle.queue.to with ESMTP; 28 Nov 2011 14:22:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4ED3DF86.9010803@queue.to> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:22:46 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: too many open files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:28 -0000 On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: > I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with > fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... > > A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate > that it is to speed up file access....) File alteration monitoring > > B howinhell can I clobber it so it releases the files OR > (preferably) doesn't start doing this or anything...? Create a gaminrc. I stole the template from the first google hit on "gaminrc" and stuck it in /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc