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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel: file: table is full
Date: 22 Jun 1996 23:27:15 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Keywords: kernel error message

jvissers@mondriaan.telebyte.nl (Jos Vissers) writes:

>I got the following messages and consequently could not do a lot anymore:

>Jun 10 14:49:01 usquebauch /kernel: ble is full
>Jun 10 14:49:01 usquebauch /kernel: file: table is full
>Jun 10 14:49:33 usquebauch last message repeated 532 times

I think upping the number of users will make the file table
bigger add an option like

maxusers        64

To the kernel config file and rebuild. Choosing the number of
users is a more complicated problem, I think the default it 8.

	David.