From: bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us (Bill Jones) Subject: QUESTION: What does _file table overflow_ indicate? Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 14:52:50 GMT
The last two days. I have gotten an error that I have not seen the four
months of using linux. Whatever is causing it is happening overnight,
apparently during heavy disk usage (running Cnews expire and perhaps uuxqt).
In the morning, when I try to find out what is going on, I'll type
ps aux
and get the answer
usr/src/linux/tools/system: File table overflow
and the xterm will lock. If I create another xterm, it will be created but
bash will not run. If I exit X, I will get the bash prompt but be unable to
execute any command. Any command is met by the same error.
I think that this might be caused by too many processes underway causing a
lockup in process allocation (?). Anyone have ideas on this?
My setup is:
linux 0.98.1 compiled with GCC 2.2.2d7
running X v2.1 all of the time
ps, free, etc from HLU's latest bootdisk
Thanks,
Bill
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