Weird error when using VI on FreeBSD-4.x

[Patrick]

Check your available file descriptors.

sysctl kern.openfiles
sysctl kern.maxfiles
sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc


On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I'm getting this error from time-to-time when using VI under
> FreeBSD_4.9-prerelease:
>
> Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Basically, VI just exits/crashes (no core dump).
>
> The load average is pretty low:
>
> 4:18PM  up 10 days, 23:42, 4 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.21, 0.21
>
> And I don't seem to have any other problems with the system.
>
> Wondering what this might be, or if it's a known problem, etc.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> _F
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