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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: too many x clients on the same ISC host?
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Date: 22 Jul 90 15:06:22 GMT
References: <1577@excelan.COM> <31891@cup.portal.com>
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In article <1577@excelan.COM>, murthy@la.excelan.com (M.D. Srinivas
Murthy) writes:
 > In article <31891@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M
Ong) writes:
 > >I am running a total of about 50 processes (most of them are daemons and 
 > >
 > >Sometimes X reports:
 > >
 > >Notice: File table over flow,
 > >
 > 
 > You can modify the kernel configuration parameters to solve this problem.
 > 
 > As a superuser, run configure (/etc/conf/cf.d/configure) and modify the
 > NINODE, NFILE parameters (option 3 - Files, Inodes , and Filesystems) 
 > and rebuild the kernel.
 > 
 > Hope this helps.
 > 
 > -murthy

Just for those that don't know, the kconfig program is used instead of 
configure on ISC variants.


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