From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 4:17:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8646737B40E for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 04:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8AC2B705; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:16:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DF002112; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:15:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:15:46 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Gregorius Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /kernel: /file:table is full Message-ID: <20010923211545.K10641@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Gregorius , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from OundK.Gregorius@t-online.de on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:00:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:00:40PM +0200, Gregorius wrote: > >smbclient Win98 > params.c: Open Conf File () - unable to open configuration file > "usr/local/etc/smb.conf" > too many open files in System You should see if you can install lsof (it's from the ports collection) and see what process is eating your file descriptors. A friend had this problem once when he ran fetchmail as root in deamon mode and it was not closing a file each poll. After three days he had a zillion open file descriptors. Edwin > P.S. Please excuse my bad english, I´m from Germany. I've seen worse :-) Edwin, from .nl but now in .au -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message