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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: wd stops on update Date: 20 May 1993 08:36:32 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 47 Message-ID: <1tg1heINN169@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <cproto.737791950@marsh> <1tde5tINN6i@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <CGD.93May19172153@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <CGD.93May19172153@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: }In article <1tde5tINN6i@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: }>This means that every morning, I have to check and see what broke during the }>night. } }on sun-lamp, we have the same problem, with /etc/daily generally }causing the machine to hang... this is with SCSI disks tho... }(i have one system with wd disks, but don't use it much. the }"hit the disk == hang" problem is a SCSI thing too, i think...) } I guess I am operating in the best of both worlds then. I am running my Ultrastore 24F SCSI controller in ST506 emulation mode. }perhaps you should trim some stuff out of daily? }(yes, i know that's not the correct solution, but it's }a temporary one!) } I think I have found the culprit. I took the 'makewhatis' job out of the /etc/daily script, and it now runs to completion. That also explains why it started really crashing after I installed 'X'. All those new man pages took it 'over the limit' whatever limit that was. }maxfdescs specifies how many file descriptors, max, a process }can have open. it's not the perfect fix (i.e. "sysctl") }but it works to fix several things, e.g. all of of the problems }(w/sendmail, bash, etc, etc, etc) which happened when run }"unlimit"ed... If that is the case, then even 512 seems to my simple mind to be too many. Would someone care to suggest a reasonable limit. Actually, a brief description of this new feature would be cool. For example, is this the value that will be used as 'unlimited'? If not, is there a way to set the max file descriptors higher than this, just in case? -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX