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From: davidtay@interport.net (David Tay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: too many open files
Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:45:46 GMT
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In article <4gj0km$rf@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
(Joerg Wunsch) wrote:

> >  "kernel: file: table is full"
> 
> > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? How would I fix something like this?
> 
> Did you try increasing ``maxusers'' in the config file?  It's not the
> maximal number of users you can support, but it's used as a base
> number to derive various system tables sizes from it.

Yes. I set WuFTPD to accept only 30 clients and Apache to serve only a
MaxClients of 50.

Could it be the lack of virtual memory? My swap is only 32 mb but I never
did like swap and wouldn't have allocated any swap at all if FreeBSD would
let me. I do have enough RAM though (96 mb).

Lastly, I hope you can tell me this: where would I go to get information
on how to read kernel messages? yes, I'm a unix newbie.

Thanks.
Dave