From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 4:59:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.gmx.net (mail1.gmx.net [194.221.183.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 044CE14D75 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 04:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pons@gmx.li) Received: (qmail 14856 invoked by uid 0); 6 Nov 1999 12:59:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmx.li) (212.38.131.194) by mail1.gmx.net with SMTP; 6 Nov 1999 12:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <38242582.E3C4116A@gmx.li> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 14:56:34 +0200 From: pons X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,arabic MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Wong Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file:table is full References: <005801bf27f2$05c92360$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny Wong wrote: > > When I send about 1700 email to the internal mail server, I get the > following messages: > > Nov 5 19:09:57 syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too > many open files in system > Nov 5 19:09:58 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:09:58 /kernel: file: table is full > Nov 5 19:09:54 smtpfwdd[70788]: Couldn't open spool file smtpdKd2971! (Too > many open files in system) > Nov 5 19:09:56 sendmail[70764]: TAA70740: SYSERR(UID66): queuename: Cannot > create "qfTAA70764" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): Too many open files in > system > Nov 5 19:09:59 /kernel: file: table is full > Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full > Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full > Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /dev/ttyv0: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full > Nov 5 19:10:00 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Nov 5 19:10:00 /kernel: file: table is full > > There are 197M swap space and 32M memory in the system. It is a FreeBSD 3.3 > stable system. How can I fix this problem? > you may need to recompile your kernel with a higher "maxusers" value. -- pons@gmx.li http://neptune.spaceports.com/~pons/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message