kernel: table is full

2003-08-16 Thread Joachim Dagerot
My server stopped responding on web and ssh today. I couldn't even login at the console, got an error stating something about a missing *.so file in /usr/..somewhere I ctrl-alt-del restarted and now everything is up again. in /var/log I can read similar lines: [date-time] kernel: table

Re: kernel: table is full

2003-08-16 Thread Rus Foster
I couldn't even login at the console, got an error stating something about a missing *.so file in /usr/..somewhere I ctrl-alt-del restarted and now everything is up again. You need to increase the number of free file handles Add kern.maxfiles=25000 to /etc/sysctl.conf and also ryn sysctl

Re: kernel: table is full

2003-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:36:45AM -0700, Rus Foster wrote: I couldn't even login at the console, got an error stating something about a missing *.so file in /usr/..somewhere I ctrl-alt-del restarted and now everything is up again. You need to increase the number of free file

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2003-08-16 Thread Joachim Dagerot
You need to increase the number of free file handles Or figure out what is using so many of them (e.g. fstat, etc). Because of the time between the problem occurs it's not a valid way to go by just using fstat. I increased the number of file handles now, is there some surveillance(sp?)

Re: kernel: table is full

2003-08-16 Thread Joachim Dagerot
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 10:42, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:36:45AM -0700, Rus Foster wrote: I couldn't even login at the console, got an error stating something about a missing *.so file in /usr/..somewhere I ctrl-alt-del restarted and now everything is up again.