Thierry, Have you ever noticed your open file descriptor count(pstat -T) go up while running newsx? I was pulling down 10,000 articles and my kern.maxfiles was set to 1800. Maybe you haven't pulled down(within one run of newsx) 8000+ articles to get the "Too many open files" error.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Too many open files: newsx 1.4pl8 Le Ven 10 jan 03 à 17:11:52 +0100, Triebwasser, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > Has anyone had issues where newsx gets a "Too many open files" error? I'm > running newsx on a i386 FreeBSD machine. No. I'm running newsx since FreeBSD 4.0, and I've never got this error. However, it's quite common with a lot of applications... > >inserting newsx path > >newsx: can't open incoming spool > "/usr/local/news/spool/incoming/.tmp.gig2.33553": Too many open files > >transfer interrupted > >latest article was 5080555 > >no spool to flush > >state: pull: cleanup > >no news is good news! > >state: aborting server > >->QUIT > ><- 205 GoodBye > >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/L.33553 > >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.newsx.gig2 > >unlocked: /usr/local/news/run/LOCK.gig2 > > Should I be changing the shell's limit or should I be doing a kernel > rebuild? It's not necessary to build a new kernel. Just have a look at the Handbook, § 6.11.1.1 (or <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kern el-limits.html>). What does `sysctl kern.maxfiles' report? (here I have: kern.maxfiles: 8192 ) If it's too small, just run sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=xxxx Regards, -- Th. Thomas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent to you because you are subcribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from this lists, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing "unsubscribe newsx <your_email_address>" in the message body. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent to you because you are subcribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from this lists, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing "unsubscribe newsx <your_email_address>" in the message body.
