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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Too many open files in system Date: 10 Nov 1995 09:12:03 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <47v513$nvd@tempis.quanta.com> References: <47kuf3$jpr@titan.ci.ua.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Fernando Cozinheiro (cooker@ci.ua.pt) wrote: : We have installed our FTP server in one of our FreeBSD systems. All is : running fine, but last night the system started to present the following : error message: "Too many open files in system". We suppose that to : solve the problem we need to recompile the kernel, using different IO : parameters... But we can't locate the file to change them... : Could anyone help us, please? : Thanks in advance. I think the option in your kernel config file, which if doesn't exist should be created and located in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, is: options "MAX_OPEN=n" Where n is the number of open files a process can have. The lint program suggests 128 for a loaded news server. The more files per process the more reserved buffers so don't get too carried away, or you'd better order some more memory if you get a lot of ftps. If you don't have a kernel config just copy the GENERIC and then add the option and cut out the options/drivers you don't need to reduce kernel bulkage. Cheers, Ross Walker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | /\/ | Ross S. W. Walker (rsww@quanta.com) | \/\ | | | |\ | finger rsww@quanta.com for PGP key _____________________________ | |___|/ | | Quanta Communications, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------