From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 16 7: 6: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DF337B57F for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 07:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (mail1.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADFA132D6 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 07:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from siteplus.com (host-209-215-8-150.cha.bellsouth.net [209.215.8.150]) by mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id KAA05162; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:05:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:07:16 -0500 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i486) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aunty Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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