On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Prabhpal S. Mavi <prabh...@digital-infotech.net> wrote: > Greetings Friends, > > have anyone has come across this warning / error? This occurs when i ssh > to my FreeBSD 9.0 System. any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Warning: > /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips.dat: Too many open files in system > [mavi@titan ~]$ su > su: pam_start: system error > > Thanks / Regards > Prabhpal
What does this command say on your system? % sysctl kern.maxfiles kern.maxfilesperproc kern.openfiles You may have exceeded the maximum number of open files in the system. Maybe some ill-conceived program that doesn't close non-needed connections, files, etc is at fault? It's easy to open more and more files, and to gradually fill the open files descriptor table in the kernel this way. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
