On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Jeff Ross wrote:
This morning httpd was failing to deliver files because of a "too many open files" error. I'd previously bumped kern.maxfiles from the default 1772 to 2048 and kern.maxvnodes from its default 1310 to 2048, so this morning I doubled them both to 4096.
You probably have a file descriptor leak. You need to figure out where it is. Look at "man 1 fstat" and use it on the Apache PIDs.
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