From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 16: 9:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A106D37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nollie.summersault.com (nollie.summersault.com [208.10.44.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AA8B43E65 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@summersault.com) Received: (qmail 57252 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Aug 2002 23:09:36 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:09:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Stosberg To: Anthony Abby Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Too Many Open FIles In-Reply-To: <1030745038.3430.48.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Aug 2002, Anthony Abby wrote: > I was just trying to ftp down the ports-current directory of the freebsd > ftp web site. The ftp activity seemed to be going pretty well when I > all of a sudden started getting "action failed: too many open files" for > every file that was being downloaded. > > What the heck does that mean?? Anthony, I think this old post to this list has your answer: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/151/2001/8/0/6529571/ I used to Google to search for "too many open files" FreeBSD You might try that yourself next time. :) -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message