Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate that it is to speed up file access) File alteration monitoring B

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
that gam_server doesn't play nice with kill -HUP ( there are 6 processes running) and also doesn't play nice with x-org/KDE as I can often get a program hang/crash as the kernel bitches about too many open files Kmail is particularly susceptible to this. What actually initiates it as there appears

too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Robert Huff
Earlier tonight, I had a machine running FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Tue Aug 23 10:07:23 EDT 2011 amd64 become unusable because kern.openfiles hit kern.maxfiles. I found this ... unexpected. After rebooting, I have been keeping track of kern.openfiles. Just after

Re: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: After rebooting, I have been keeping track of kern.openfiles. Just after boot, it was about 575. Two hours later, it is over 3100 and climbing slowly but steadily. (There are moments when the number drops by 5 ...

RE: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Murray Taylor
: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adam Vande More Sent: Monday, 28 November 2011 1:57 PM To: Robert Huff Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many open files On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote

Re: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Robert Huff
Adam Vande More writes: After rebooting, I have been keeping track of kern.openfiles. Just after boot, it was about 575. Two hours later, it is over 3100 and climbing slowly but steadily. (There are moments when the number drops by 5 ... but then goes up again.)

Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-24 Thread Jonathan Franks
system is that I do have a single SSH session up. Unfortunately it's not authenticated as ROOT but as an ordinary user. When I try a ls I get : $ ls ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3

Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-24 Thread Justin England
get : $ ls ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 I would like to add that depending on what the server is doing can determine the best way to attack your problem. I have had web servers go crazy

Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Joachim Dagerot
ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown so I rather want to reboot the machine manually. I certainly need som help here and also more help on how

Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
as ROOT but as an ordinary user. When I try a ls I get : $ ls ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown so I rather want to reboot the machine

Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Joachim Dagerot
: $ ls ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown so I rather want to reboot the machine manually. I certainly need som help here and also more help

Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
not authenticated as ROOT but as an ordinary user. When I try a ls I get : $ ls ls: .: Too many open files in system Trying a su gives: $ su /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 I have a fairly huge RAID-5 system thatdislikes a power shutdown so I rather want

Fwd: Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left)

2005-01-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Too many open files (Critical, have only one session left) Date: Thursday 20 January 2005 06:52 pm From: Enigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can use sysctl ajust kernel values kern.maxfiles type