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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:45:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Craig Burgess" <craig-burgess@home.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: msg: '/kernel: file: table is full'
Message-ID:  <14957.59217.474070.92428@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <GHEGJJOKGFNJDIHBHOIDCECECFAA.craig-burgess@home.net>
References:  <GHEGJJOKGFNJDIHBHOIDCECECFAA.craig-burgess@home.net>

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Craig Burgess writes:
 > I am mostly clueless here. Following CVSUP for source and ports from 4.1.1 i
 > am now running
 > 
 >    FreeBSD Felix 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #8: Sun Jan 21 17:57:41 PST
 > 2001
 >    craig@Felix:/usr/src/sys/compile/FELIX  alpha
 > 
 > i received the error msg noted above and recorded in /var/log/messages
 > 
 > dmesg produces only what appears to be dates:
 >   > dmesg
 >   1992, 1993, 1994
 > 
 > This also appeared in messages
 >   Jan 21 23:16:58 Felix /kernel: b0[spade]118>.01 httpd
 >   Jan 21 23:22:28 Felix /kernel: Unive
 >   Jan 21 23:22:28 Felix /kernel: QUENTI
 >   Jan 21 23:22:28 Felix /kernel: S_SYSL
 >   Jan 21 23:22:28 Felix /kernel: ebug-l
 >   Jan 21 23:24:58 Felix /kernel:
 > 
 > (in the first line [spade] was displayed as a spade symbol)
 > 
 > I stopped the web server and the error msg stopped
 > 
 > What additional information is needed to guide me to a fix? I can follow
 > instructions but i think that i'm way over my head here.

The error message from the subject line is probably due to exceeding
maxfiles, the system wide open files limit.

You might want to try configuring and building another kernel with a
higher value for maxusers.

I *think* you might be able to poke kern.maxfiles on the fly.  Eg:

#sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=8232
kern.maxfiles: 1064 -> 8232

I don't know what's causing the apparent corruption in your msgbuffer.

Drew



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