roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (09/16/90)
I have a 8 meg 3/180 server on which some fairly large jobs are run by a daemon triggered by some incomming mail. On fairly frequent occasions, I get mail bounced to me with "unknown mailer error -1" and lots of lines in /usr/adm/messages saying "file: table is full". My kernel was configured with MAXUSERS=4 until a couple of days ago. I tried bumping it up to 8 but that doesn't seem to have helped. I'm booting one with MAXUSERS=12 right now, but I'm not sure that just putting bigger numbers there is what I should be doing. Is there anything more specific I can do to prevent the "file: table is full" messages? I assume that means that I have more files open system-wide than there are slots in some file descriptor table for. Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"