kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
increase kern.maxfiles :) in sysctl.conf On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... If it's not a very busy machine, something must be wrong with postfix to cause this error. If it is a busy machine, you can increase the kern.maxfiles. sysctl kern.maxfiles=number You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf to set it at boot time. -- Frederique ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, VeeJay maan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? sysctl -a | grep kern.maxfiles and then sysctl kern.maxfiles=123456789 (or some other BIG number) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
Hello, Check your HHD. Last time I hit this on a not busy machine it was the RAID card. Do you use RAID on it ? Peter Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: sysctl kern.maxfiles=number You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf to set it at boot time. ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:11:02 VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... Check kern.openfiles sysctl to see if it is close to kern.maxfiles. Tune kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc (use bigger numbers). kern.maxfiles: Maximum number of files kern.maxfilesperproc: Maximum files allowed open per process kern.openfiles: System-wide number of open files HTH, Pieter de Goeje ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:11:02 VeeJay wrote: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) From man 7 tuning: The kern.maxfiles sysctl determines how many open files the system sup- ports. The default is typically a few thousand but you may need to bump this up to ten or twenty thousand if you are running databases or large descriptor-heavy daemons. The read-only kern.openfiles sysctl may be interrogated to determine the current number of open files on the system. -- Mel who wubs self-answering questions. ___ 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
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:41, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: increase kern.maxfiles :) in sysctl.conf Pretty sure he got his answer over on @hackers. The need to cross post never ceases to amaze me. On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Then I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? please see tuning(7) -- Eitan Adler Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave. -Jakob Nielsen ___ 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
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded
Hello, i have a modest FreeBSD that's constantly giving me the message kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by 0 (or 53) (on the main console). And if i attempt to log in another console i get an error similar to /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found or error reading /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 something like that... i cant describe better because it wont let me switch back to the console which gave the error and the other consoles just freeze if i log in :D I am really out of ideas so any help will be greatly appreciated, in the meantime, ill keep looking, if i find a solution ill mail it Anyway, thanks in advance! Rafael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello, i have a modest FreeBSD that's constantly giving me the message kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by 0 (or 53) (on the main console). And if i attempt to log in another console i get an error similar to /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found or error reading /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 something like that... i cant describe better because it wont let me switch back to the console which gave the error and the other consoles just freeze if i log in :D I am really out of ideas so any help will be greatly appreciated, in the meantime, ill keep looking, if i find a solution ill mail it Anyway, thanks in advance! Rafael Check out tuning(7), specifically the section about kern.maxfiles. -- Pieter de Goeje ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded
Just got a busy machine with the following errors in the messages log: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). Default FreeBSD 6.1 / AMP set-up. Thought 6.1 would handle this stuff automaticly just like the mbufs. Anyone knows how the raise those limits? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded
Coen Watstaatervoor wrote: Just got a busy machine with the following errors in the messages log: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). Default FreeBSD 6.1 / AMP set-up. Thought 6.1 would handle this stuff automaticly just like the mbufs. Anyone knows how the raise those limits? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to put an entry in /boot/loader.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded
Drew Sanford wrote: Coen Watstaatervoor wrote: Just got a busy machine with the following errors in the messages log: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). Default FreeBSD 6.1 / AMP set-up. Thought 6.1 would handle this stuff automaticly just like the mbufs. Anyone knows how the raise those limits? You need to put an entry in /boot/loader.conf Simple answer: read the manpage-tuning(7)! -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?
paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since UID 80 would be the httpd process, I suppose looking into process-specific resource issues is next. I am running Apache 1.3.29. Not necessarily. TCP port 80 is held by httpd, but it isn't necessarily user ID 80. Look at the passwd file to figure out who IS UID 80. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded: what to investigate?
I upgraded my webserver hardware from a old Pii 233 to an AMD Athlon 700 a few weeks back and seem to be having some teething troubles with it. I have hit the kern.maxfiles limits twice recently, having run for a couple of years without even knowing there was one. I found 420 of these in messages: Dec 21 13:39:30 red /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). and I could only login on console. I read thru tuning(7) and the best I could figure is that my best option was to let the system work its limits based on hardware: accordingly, I set maxusers in my config to 0. I didn't understand the rest of it and I'm not sure much of it applies, since it's not exactly loaded (less than 1 hits/day). This is what I see now. It looks like a lot of headroom, I think. kern.maxfiles: 4040 kern.maxfilesperproc: 3636 kern.openfiles: 300 Since UID 80 would be the httpd process, I suppose looking into process-specific resource issues is next. I am running Apache 1.3.29. One thing I noticed that seemed a little odd was the snmpd seemed to behaving strangely. I did an snmpwalk to see if I could monitor these kernel values that way (there is so much useful stuff exposed thru snmp), but I found that I couldn't run it more than once, and that snmpd was running at 97% or so of CPU. I have deinstalled and rebuilt it, and now it seems to be behaving properly, but I wonder if every 5 minute snmp requests, in and outbound, with a flaky binary were slowly eating up file descriptors. -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
