From: pfaffman@relax.des.edu (Jay Pfaffman) Subject: [bug?] File table overflow (xiafs) Date: 10 May 1993 18:29:41 GMT
When viewing a document with xdvi that required many fonts to be
built, mf kept crashing due to a 'file table overflow.' I rebooted &
the problem "got better," but still didn't quite make it. I killed
all other xterms * xpostit & was finally able to view the document,
but the shell (in xterm) still complained of file table overflow.
I've now consulted Dr. Bach, & again understand what the file-table is
about (it's the kernel's table that links the user's file descriptor
table (one per process) with the inode table). I'm remembering
similar problems in the past that I've attributed to xpostit. Could
it be that something is opening lots of files & not giving back those
nodes in the file table? I've tried killing off most stuff (but still
have X, random x goodies (xload, xeyes, xbiff, xclock) & networking
running.
I'm running stock 0.99.9 with xiafs, nfs, dosfs . . .486 8mb ram 16 mb
swap.
-- Jay Pfaffman pfaffman@relax.des.edu Hoboken, NJ 07030 pfaffman@pilot.njin.net -- 201-217-4241 (work) 201-569-9500 Looking for a job. BS in CS 6 years teaching experience.