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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!swsbe6.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!news.rccn.net!news.ip.pt!usenet From: Rui Cohen <rmc@co.ip.pt> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Kernel Problem - "file table is full" Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 04:20:09 +0200 Organization: IP, SA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <323621D9.5851@co.ip.pt> Reply-To: rmc@co.ip.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: ip2.ip.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.0 in a box running a news server and I keep getting these messages: /kernel: file: table is full syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system I understand that a few kernel changes are necessary for FBSD to run well with a large number of users, process and open files. What kernel options should I change and what are the recommended values for a pretty loaded server ? TIA, --- Rui Cohen