Too many files crashing services

[Norberto Meijome]

Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
> 
>> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> [...]
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>>> Dec  4 17:54:34 esmtp kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, 
>>> please see tuning(7).
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>> man 7 tuning
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> So, you think this is what is contributing to my problem? Yeah, I have 
> never ran tunefs on the RAID 5 system running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is this 
> what you are suggesting? Below is my current partitioning, how risky is 
> running tunefs. I'll have to go to the server location of course and 
> want to be sure of what to do and should I wait until a Saturday in case 
> something were to go wrong. From what I've read, I should run 'tunefs -n 
> enable /filesystem' for soft updates?

No, you are running out of maxfiles, as per "kern.maxfiles limit 
exceeded by uid ..." .

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html

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