Re: Full file table FreeBSD 2.1R

On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, PETER STUBBS wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been running squid on my FBSD 2.1 system for quite some time
> now, and yesterday I hit my first real problem.
>
> The cache was getting quite a bit of work. About 3500 hits / hour and
> it started returning pages saying that it was busy, and / or out of
> file descriptors. Here's part of the /var/log/messages entry
>
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files
> in system
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio last message repeated 3 times
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio /kernel: file: table is full
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio last message repeated 158 times
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio /kernel: ble is full
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio /kernel: file: table is full
> Jul 25 10:02:19 seraglio last message repeated 176 times
> Jul 25 10:03:23 seraglio last message repeated 5 times
> Jul 25 10:03:23 seraglio sendmail[6413]: KAA06413: SYSERR(UID0): Can't create
> transcript file xfKAA06413 : Too many open files in system
> Jul 25 10:03:23 seraglio sendmail[6413]: KAA06413: SYSERR(UID0): Can't open
> /dev/null: Too many open fil es in system
> Jul 25 10:03:35 seraglio /kernel: file: table is full
>
> I've rebuilt the kernel with
> options "CHILD_MAX=256"
> options "OPEN_MAX=256"
> but I don't know if that's going to solve the problem. Anyone got
> some more ideas?

        I think you have to rebuild squid to make sure it uses the new
MAX_FD, I'm not sure because I'm not a freeBSD professional

>
> TIA,
> Peter
>
>
> Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS.
> ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432
> mailto:peters@staidan.qld.edu.au
> http://www.staidan.qld.edu.au
>
>

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Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 15:49:10 MDT