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From: Dean Roth <dean@myp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: portmap failure
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:14:49 -0800
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1. I reconfigured the kernel to allow 512 concurrently open files
per user and portmap failed. It worked O.K. with a kernel configured
for 256 concurrently open files per user. Why would it fail with 512?
The log file entry says:

Jan 29 13:26:33 www portmap[99]: run_svc returned unexpectedly


2. A small error exists in the portmap code in BSDI and FreeBSD.
The error message states that run_svc quit early. It should say
"svc_run returned unexpectedly".

Dean