Hi all, I am getting sporadic Xorg / KDE lockups or process crashes. It seems to be related to hitting the kern.maxfiles value. What I am seeing looks like a lot of unclosed file descriptors that are clogging the system badly.
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 Xorg 7.5 KDE 3.5.10_7 Firefox 3.6.8,1 I use Kmail to access my dovecot server on another box. Symptoms include messages like unable to cd into /home/me/stuff/next_level Or unable to access a shared lib. If I close konqerer or kamail or firefox, Then it sometimes comes good, other wise the best solution is to logout of KDE / Xorg and (re)startx again. At the command prompt, without Xorg / KDE running I usually see and kern.openfiles value of about 350, It will jump up to about 900 or more on the startx which also launches KDE, that up to arounf 10000, 11000 with Kmail, konqerer and firefox running. It will sometime hover there for days, Then go up and cause freezes, nonstarts etc . Other times it will go up Within a hour or so.... I've looked at tuning(7) and currently kern.maxfiles is set to 24000. I have hald and dbus running for xorg Any udeas ? -- Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Special Projects Engineer P: +61 3 8710 0600 D: +61 3 9238 4275 F: +61 3 9238 4140 |_|0|_| "Absence of evidence |_|_|0| is not evidence of absence" |0|0|0| Carl Sagan --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ### _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"