On Feb 2,  9:00am, greywolf@starwolf.com (Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: stuck with filled vnode table

| If root has unlimited his access, I could see where the _file_ table
| would be reported as full; I was under the impression that the vnodes
| listed by pstat was the size of the _cache_, and not the size of the
| internal table, and that filling the cache was not fatal.
| 
| Shows what happens when you assume...

Exactly. And make(1) runs effectively unlimit descriptors when it starts
up. This is so that when it forks jobs in parallel, it can multiplex the
i/o channels of each job.

christos