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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news1.inlink.com!news2.inlink.com!usenet From: james@soho-stl.com (James Bass) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File: Table is full? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 02:03:19 GMT Organization: Soho Saint Louis Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4qi8qu$jkf@news2.inlink.com> References: <4qcovc$23n@news2.inlink.com> <31CA1F69.114B@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: james@soho-stl.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deviant.inlink.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: >James Bass wrote: >> >> Hello! I am kinda new to freebsd, and I have a question... >> I am running a web server, and it is apache. I run it from inetd. I >> have a p-133 w/32Megs of ram... okay! everytime i look at dmesg or >> the error logs, it says httpd pid xxx uid 0 exited on signal 11 >> kernel: File: table is full! Okay, I recompiled the kernel before, >> using the Generic one and removing everything I didnt need. ALSO I >> added the two oprions in the kernel for MAX_CHILD_whatever and set it >> at 200... the MAX_FILES open or whatever i set to 200! Actually I >> set them as high as 1000 once and no difference... anyone have a >> clue??? >> >This may have to do with running it under inetd instead of standalone as >FreeBSD and Apache are both set up to do. My server is running a 486DX-50 >with 32 MB RAM, and is happily running Apache 1.0.5 in standalone mode, >with no trouble. >As I recall, the Apache docs specified some adjustments to the >configuration to run under inetd; you may have trouble if you didn't make >the changes. You may need to download the original package from >http://www.apache.org and compile that after reconfiguring for inetd. >You may prefer to go back to standalone mode instead. It responds a >little faster that way, and keeps a few child servers idle in case of >simultaneous requests. >I hope this helps! >Ken Thanks Ken! I will move it to standalone mode... I was thinkin' about doin' it anyway.... Thanks for the info! James James@soho-stl.com