I found 420 of these in messages: Dec 21 13:39:30 red /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). and I could only login on console.
I read thru tuning(7) and the best I could figure is that my best option was to let the system work its limits based on hardware: accordingly, I set maxusers in my config to 0. I didn't understand the rest of it and I'm not sure much of it applies, since it's not exactly loaded (less than 10000 hits/day).
This is what I see now. It looks like a lot of headroom, I think.
kern.maxfiles: 4040 kern.maxfilesperproc: 3636 kern.openfiles: 300
Since UID 80 would be the httpd process, I suppose looking into process-specific resource issues is next. I am running Apache 1.3.29.
One thing I noticed that seemed a little odd was the snmpd seemed to behaving strangely. I did an snmpwalk to see if I could monitor these kernel values that way (there is so much useful stuff exposed thru snmp), but I found that I couldn't run it more than once, and that snmpd was running at 97% or so of CPU. I have deinstalled and rebuilt it, and now it seems to be behaving properly, but I wonder if every 5 minute snmp requests, in and outbound, with a flaky binary were slowly eating up file descriptors.
-- Paul Beard <www.paulbeard.org/> paulbeard [at] mac.com
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