On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >
> > We had a crash this morning of our server ... not the machine, just the
> > postmaster processes ... all three of them spread across three seperate
> > ports ...
> >
> > Just looking through logs now, I'm finding:
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > looking in /var/log/messages, I'm seeing the following just before the
> > crashes:
> >
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql /kernel: file: table is full
> >
> > would this be the cause? if so, I have to raise some limits, no problem
> > there, but just want to confirm ...
>
> What's maxusers set to in the kernel? If you want to try raising it on
maxusers 128
> the fly, try
>
> # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=abiggernumberthanitisnow
>
> and set it to a bigger number than it is now.
>
> # sysctl kern.maxfiles
just up'd her to 8192 from 4136 ... thanks, forgot about the sysctl value
for this, was dreading having to recompile :(