Server Problem

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 18 December 2006 13:51, ossama abdel-haleem wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>   I have HP Proliant ML 370 G4 server with dual Processors 3.6 intel xeon
> and HP Smart RAID controller (Config=>RAID5) (146GB * 6) + (4 GB Of RAM.)
> The server working as application server (Tailored Software) based on
> POSTGRESQL server. I installed the FreeBSD 6.1 to serve 100 users with the
> application so - after period of time I found an error message appeared on
> the server : Kern. Maxfiles Limit Exceeded By UID 1001, Please See Tuning
> (7).
>
>   What is the problem? Can You Help Me because after this message appears
> the server activities down.
>
>   Thanks
>   Ossama Abdel Haleem

The problem is too many files open.

Add this to /etc/sysctl.conf

kern.maxfiles=16144

Then in a terminal type: 

sysctl kern.maxfiles=16144

If you still get the error try increasing it some more. 

Also you should read man tuning as the  error message suggests, especially the 
section about kern.maxfiles.

Beech

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