[14192] in Athena Bugs
Re: Don't know whether this is due to new weird stuff or old weird stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Feb 16 18:14:39 1996
To: dryfoo@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:46:59 EST."
<9602161847.AA00499@thelonious.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:14:14 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>>
>> When I logged in today, (or tried to) I got this line repeatedly:
>>
>> File table overflow
I believe this means that thelonious has run out of a system resource,
specifically, I believe it has reached the maximum number of files
that may be open simultaneously (by all running programs.)
>> (Is this just my ftp server be doing this? Is there something not
>> getting cleaned up there? Could it be anything else?)
I suspect that the ftp server is at least partially responsible
>> Any idears appreciated.
It's possible you could tweak or rebuild your kernel to increase that
resource, but I'm not sure how to do that.
Jonathon
