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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:23:59 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Reid Findeisen <reidf@gtu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, dwilson@aquinas.gtu.edu
Subject:   Re: /kernel: file: table is full
Message-ID:  <19990309012359.A81097@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990308145041.009bc5f0@aquinas.gtu.edu>
References:  <3.0.32.19990308145041.009bc5f0@aquinas.gtu.edu>

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Reid Findeisen wrote:

> I occasionally see this error (often then repeated many times) in my system
> messages file:
> 
> /kernel: file: table is full
> 
> How can I fix this?  Will rebuilding my kernel with a higher "maxusers"
> (currently set to 10) help this problem?

Yes, I beleive so.

> Should I have "OPEN_MAX" set to something?

I think just increasing maxusers would work. Increase max users, and
see what "sysctl kern.maxfiles" shows, and more importantly if it has
increased from its current value.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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