Antwort: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

[Axel.Gruner at suedfactoring.de]

Hi,

>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 Axel.Gruner at suedfactoring.de wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i run into a problem on a FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE Applicationserver (2GB
>of RAM,
>> 4GB Swap, Dual XEON 3.06Ghz).
>> The box serves the "xfrce4-panel" for 80 Network Clients via ssh so
>the
>> Users can start OpenOffice.org and firefox from that panel.
>> It is goin very well, except a message (and also a problem) i run
>into the
>> last day.
>> If i tried to open firefox from a networkclient and received the
>message
>> "too many files open...". I saw that message on 3 different Network
>Clients
>> and just after a fresh configure and the first time starting firfox
>on
>> these Networkclients with that UID.
>>
>> I checked my configuration on the server about "openfiles":
>>
>> kern.openfiles:9306
>> kern.maxfiles:65536
>>
>> netstat -m
>> 3952 mbufs in use
>> 732/64000 mbuf clusters in use (current/max)
>> [...]
>>
>> "fstat" shows me 393 on User A and on User B 3459. I did not check
>the
>> other users.
>>
>> kern.maxfilesperproc: 5898
>> kern.maxusers: 384
>>
>> My /boot/loader.conf looks like:
>> kern.maxfiles="65536"
>> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=64000
>> kern.ipc.nmbufs=256000
>> kern.maxproc=8192
>> kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096
>>
>> So i do not get it, imho the configuration is just fine, but why do
>i get
>> the message "too many files open..."?
>
>I think there is a separate limit for sockets, which you may be
>hitting.  Check with "sysctl kern.ipc | grep socket".

I checked that:
# sysctl kern.ipc | grep socket
kern.ipc.numopensockets: 1185
kern.ipc.maxsockets: 65536

Also this one looks fine imho.