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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!news.citenet.net!usenet From: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: problems with may snap, and previous snap versions Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:44:33 GMT Organization: Canadiana Gateway Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4s0tgg$3hr@cti01.citenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.151.204.75 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Ok, I got a p100, 32 mb ram, Intel Ethernet Express Pro 100b card, and a quantum 1.08gb ide hd. I am running into a commonly occuring problem that is bugging me. Every so often I am getting "too many files open in system" warnings from the kernal,and "file table full" as well. I really don't have a clue where to start, and neither do a couple of other people who are running freebsd. Anyhow, I was having the same problem back in May, and back then it was suggested to upgrade to the latest snap, which at the time was the May snap issue. So all went well, I reinstalled, and didn't get those warnings for about 3 weeks, then they gradually popped up here and there. Now I can't through the day without getting one or 2 sessions of this insanity. When it occurs, the hd goes all batty for about 2 to 5 minutes, and I can't do a ps, or a ls on the /proc mount. Could someone please explain why this could be occuring, and what the hecks is going on. Its starting to worry me, especially if I have to reinstall once a month in order to solve the problem, which as you can imagine is quite in convienient. One side track note. I have a stealth64 2001 series vid card with 2mb ram (dram), and can't seem to locate the driver to use for xfree86 anywhere. I can use the generic vga (which I am now), but well to be honest, its dam ugly. Would be nice to get this toy up to snuff :) Phil Holmstrom