On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:21:05PM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> Quentin Garnier wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:32:41AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
> >>Saw this on a server recently :
> >>
> >>file: table is full - increase kern.maxfiles or MAXFILES
> >>
> >>
> >>Does that have to be done in the kernel and recompile it,
> >>or can it be done in sysctl.conf or somewhere else
> >>a little less crude?
> >
> >kern.maxfiles is a sysctl node.
> 

Are you using Samba? Because IIUC the error is reported while Samba is
trying to get the maximum number available, increasing the number
requested until it fails. If this is indeed the case, increasing the
sysctl value will not "solve" the problem---there is no problem indeed,
just a behavior that is really annoying, filling dmesg buffer.
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