Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:19:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Table full Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970422181854.19078A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422151719.24344J-100000@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote: > > Yesterday afternoon, I got this kernerl message/etc in my messages: > > > > Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in > > system: Too > > many open files in system > > Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge /kernel: file: table is full > > Apr 21 12:09:18 fledge last message repeated 3 times > > Apr 21 12:10:31 fledge last message repeated 3 times > > Apr 21 12:16:55 fledge su: robert to root on /dev/ttyp2 > > > > I currently have maxusers=128 in my kernel config -- can I explicitely > > increase file handles on the system, or should I just increase maxusers? > > Does maxusers change the file descriptor table size? > > Not really. You want to probably tweak CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX. I was unsure if this was a user hitting a by-uid limit on files, or if the actual system table for all file descriptors was being hit? Is there any way to find out a) if it was a specific user or the system, and b) if it was a specific user, who it was so I could find out what program ran into the problem? Thanks, Robert Watson
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.NEB.3.95.970422181854.19078A-100000>