RE: [leafnode-list] Too many files

["Support" <support@xxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthias Andree [mailto:ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:03 PM
>To: leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] Too many files
>
>
>"Support" <support@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>   I get the following errors on my FreeBSD 4.4 + Leafnode 1.9.19 system:
>>
>> Too many open files in system
>>
>>   This happens when reading news for a while from a newsreading
>> client.  Is there a patch for this?  Seems almost like the daemon is
>> opening message files but not closing them until the entire daemon is
>> terminated.
>
>Is it actually leafnode that exhausts the file descriptors? Any hints in
>the log? Try lsof (is in /usr/ports somewhere, try make search key=lsof)
>to figure what is actually the process that has so many files open.
>

I actually think I figured it out.  I think it was fetchnews that was doing
it.
I have fetchnews set to run out of cron every 10 minutes.

What I think was happening is that if I subscribed to a lot of busy groups
at
once, during the next fetchnews run it would open up to the maximum number
of
files set in the config file (default 2000)  FreeBSD's default kernel has a
max of around this number of open files.  I recompiled the FreeBSD kernel
and
set MAXUSERS up to 128 and the problem seems to have gone away.

Ted


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