File Table Full

[Chris]

When I do this it shows my maxfiles currently set to 4136. I would assume
this to enough. I'm still not sure why this happened. I have had 2 instances
of my mqueue.in backing up. I think it backed up and MailScanner went into
"emergency mode" and this cause my File Table to become full. But im still a
newb and thats just a guess.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hepworth" <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: File Table Full


> Alex Theodore wrote:
> > You will need to recompile your FreeBSD Kernel with a higher value for
the MAXUSER parameter.  Try doubling or tripling it.  You can also
dynamically reconfigure this kernel  parameter via sysctl(8) command.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >   Alex
> >
>
>
> You don't need to recompile, add kern.maxfiles=2048 to /etc/sysctl.conf
> to change the default on boot and use '
>
> sysctl kern.maxfiles
>
> to find out what the value is now and
>
> sysctl kern.maxfiles 2048
>
> to change the value to 2048 on the fly. Obviously you can alter the 2048
> to whatever value you want, but 2048 works well for my email server
> running imap, so lots of users opening lots of files!
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
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