Re: Too many open files

2012-03-28 Thread Jim Bryant
/ 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

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-27 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:15:59AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Does 'procstat -fa' give better results for you? It seems to be one of those little hidden secrets that FreeBSD comes with a bunch of native applications that provide pretty much equivalent functionality to lsof(1). See:

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-26 Thread Shane Ambler
: /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

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-26 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
-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

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-26 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! From knowing that you have too many files open you can increase the maxfile numbers - but if you want to know what uses them try this - lsof -n | awk '{print $2 \t $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort On my system, it shows interesting numbers for firefox-instances: 3895 4150

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2012 09:56, Kurt Jaeger wrote: From knowing that you have too many files open you can increase the maxfile numbers - but if you want to know what uses them try this - lsof -n | awk '{print $2 \t $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort On my system, it shows interesting numbers for

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-26 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! lsof -n | awk '{print $2 \t $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort On my system, it shows interesting numbers for firefox-instances: [...] Does 'procstat -fa' give better results for you? Yes, much better. -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 8 years to go !

Too many open files

2012-03-25 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
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

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-25 Thread C. P. Ghost
-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

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
-tips.dat: Too many open files in system [mavi@titan ~]$ su su: pam_start: system error Thanks / Regards Prabhpal ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Too many open files

2000-08-21 Thread Jonathan Defries
Hi all, I'm trying to run a caching nameserver on one of my web servers and it keeps complaining: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files I have 4 servers with identical hardware, all running 3.5-STABLE with the same sort of loads on each, but this is the only one it is happening on. What's

Re: Too many open files

2000-08-21 Thread Fred Condo
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Jonathan Defries wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to run a caching nameserver on one of my web servers and it keeps complaining: socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files I have 4 servers with identical hardware, all running 3.5-STABLE with the same