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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:00:32 +0900
From:      till plewe <till.plewe@gmail.com>
To:        VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
Message-ID:  <8be8566f0904140600jc0b6927rcff063c225d1d625@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0904140511y53fe5da6tc1aaea76bc712d30@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2cd0a0da0904140511y53fe5da6tc1aaea76bc712d30@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this
> problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to
> increase the limit and avoid this error?
>

sysctl -a | grep kern.maxfiles

and then

sysctl kern.maxfiles=123456789 (or some other BIG number)



> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many
> files open in the system
> Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many
> files open in the system
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7)
>
> When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what
> to do? And I have to restart the server manually.... by on/off switch...
> --
> Thanks!
>
> BR / vj
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