Re: Question: "File table overflow" (Linux 2.0.33pre6)

Ben Woodard (bwoodard@cisco.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:20:02 +0000

Is there some sort of bugfix in 2.0.33 that wasn't enumerated in
Linus's email when 2.0.33 came out. I have had a similar problem a
couple of times recently with 2.0.32 but I didn't suspect the kernel I
was suspecting the application software, samba, lpr and netatalk.

> >
> > I'm seeing more and more "file table overflow" related error messages, from
> > various machines doing various things (mail, ip masq, squid, ..). All
> > machines are running the sixth pre-release of kernel 2.0.33.
>
> Hmmm ... for 2.0.32 I found 6 pre-releases, for 2.0.33 only 3 pre-releases
> occurs.
>
> >
> > Could this problem be kernel related, and if so is it fixed in the actual
> > 2.0.33 release? If not, is it on the 2.0.34 fix-list?
>
> Have you tried 2.0.33?