On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I've run into problem that various prgorams (sendmail, ftpd) get often
> "cannot create socket: No buffer space available" error. Box is
> serving static html and images about 300 requests/sec, no shortage of
> memory nor CPU resources. Kernel is compiled with: maxusers 256
> options NMBCLUSTERS=16384
>
> # netstat -an | wc -l
>    15207
>
> My best guess is that system is running out of file descriptors. Any suggestions how 
>to fix it?
>
> /fb

Yep, you're probably running out of sockets.  You can change the count in
loader.conf, the variable to tune is "kern.ipc.maxsockets".

Set it to something higher than 16384, I guess.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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