Re: Strange load issue on NetBSD

["David Brownlee" <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

------- Original message -------
From:  <vanja%vanja.com@localhost>
Cc: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Sent: 4.5.'09,  22:36

> 
> Thanks George.
> 
> I've just noticed this in dmesg output:
> 
> file: table is full - increase kern.maxfiles or MAXFILES
> <repeated many times>
> 
> netbsd: {23} sysctl -a | grep maxfiles
> kern.maxfiles = 3404
> netbsd: {24} 
> 
> I'm not used to NetBSD, so I'll need to figure this one out (read 
> documentation :). But I presume it could be 
> related to the load issues I am seeing.

You should be able to run 'sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=8192' to adjust that limit, 
though finding what is using so many file descriptors would obviously be 
helpful.

The 'fstat' command will list all open file descriptors in the system, which 
should give some clue...