From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 11:55:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA28397 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA28381 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA18230; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christophe Prevotaux cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Wondering In-Reply-To: <348D9337.69D84F05@hexanet.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Christophe Prevotaux wrote: > I have got these messages in my /var/log/messages > > What could the reasons ? > > Dec 8 21:34:28 blop syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in > system > Dec 8 21:34:28 blop last message repeated 3 times > Dec 8 21:34:28 blop /kernel: file: table is full > Dec 8 21:34:28 blop syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in > system > Dec 8 21:34:28 blop last message repeated 3 times You hae runaway processes? Something has consumed all the available file descriptors on the system. You're probably due for a reboot, and maybe a bump in maxusers in your kernel config. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major