Re: running out of file descriptors

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've recently updated to a NetBSD built on April 3rd. In my latest bulk builds I noticed
>
> /netbsd: file: table is full - increase kern.maxfiles or MAXFILES
>
> It was around 3700, I've bumped it to 8000.
>
> I wonder why I needed to do that though. Did something start using
> more file descriptors, or is something leaking file descriptors?
>
> Did anyone else notice something similar?

The other day I had an instance of the shell (tcsh) reporting "No more 
processes" for a brief period.  The problem self-corrected so I didn't 
research any further.



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