Full file table FreeBSD 2.1R

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?

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
Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 15:37:12 MDT