Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:07:16 -0500 From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> To: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full Message-ID: <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au>
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Is you mail actually in /var and if so what is the result of du -ks while in that file system? aunty wrote: > > Feb 16 18:19:17 hostname inetd[187]: accept (for pop3): Too many open files in system > Feb 16 18:19:18 hostname /kernel: file: table is full > Feb 16 18:19:18 hostname sendmail[23967]: RAA23967: SYSERR(UID0): Cannot reopen dfRAA23967: Too many open files in system > > Its kernel has maxusers set to 128 and it does no more work than the > other machine. ISTR maxusers is the usual solution to these things. > Could it need to be even higher, or should I be looking elsewhere? > > I've noticed both machines have large mail queues which they're trying > to empty, with hundreds of sendmail processes sitting around for hours. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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