Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:12:05 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Michael W. Smith" <mwsmith@merlin.darkmage.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many files open? Message-ID: <199807110212.VAA00332@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> of "Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:48:16 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710154639.6932B-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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Dan Busarow writes: > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Michael W. Smith wrote: > > I keep getting a too many files open error on the system and it's hosing > > it all to hell. A friend of mine who's more familiar with FreeBSD told me > > I need to rebuild the kernel but he wasn't sure which directive I need to > > change to fix it. I've got the Complete FreeBSD book, and know how to > > rebuild the kernel, but it's not entirely clear what I need to change to > > stop that error from happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Usually the easiest way to fix this is just to increase the value > of maxusers in your kernel config file. maxusers controls quite > a few system limits. You made need to do more, depending on what > this box is doing but this is a good start. What about the various limits in /etc/login.conf such as "openfiles". These may be kicking in before the kernel exhausts its resources. See limits(1) and login.conf(5) for more ideas. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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