JM Stacy Freebsd Kernal Errors

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Jeff said you might be able to help.

I have a server that httpd is down on.

Errors I'm getting:
Jun 27 00:04:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:04:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:05:00 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 12, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:05:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:05:15 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:06:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:06:09 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:06:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:07:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:07:04 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:07:11 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:07:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:08:02 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:09:03 knucklehead last message repeated 2 times
Jun 27 00:09:08 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:09:08 knucklehead last message repeated 11 times
Jun 27 00:09:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:10:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:11:13 knucklehead last message repeated 3 times
Jun 27 00:11:56 knucklehead proftpd[18725]: virgil.gotwebhost.com - ProFTPD 1.2.9 (stable) (built Mon Nov 10 00:41:47 MST 2003) standalone mode STARTUP
Jun 27 00:12:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:12:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:12:30 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:12:58 knucklehead last message repeated 7 times
Jun 27 00:13:02 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:13:12 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:15:13 knucklehead last message repeated 4 times
Jun 27 00:21:13 knucklehead last message repeated 12 times
Jun 27 00:21:23 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:21:37 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:22:02 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:22:12 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:22:28 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:22:54 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:23:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:23:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:23:26 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:24:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:24:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:25:13 knucklehead last message repeated 2 times
Jun 27 00:25:43 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:26:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:26:13 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:26:35 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:27:02 knucklehead last message repeated 3 times
Jun 27 00:27:02 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:27:12 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).
Jun 27 00:29:13 knucklehead last message repeated 4 times
Jun 27 00:29:30 knucklehead /kernel: arplookup 8.15.0.1 failed: host is not on local network
Jun 27 00:30:03 knucklehead /kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7).

We did a panel upgrade last night. Today we noticed kernal errors, someone tried to fix that and then httpd went down and now we have these errors. Those are in the System Logs.

httpd error logs show this:
fopen: Too many open files in system
httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/httpd/domains/monikorinok.com.flag.error.log.
fopen: Too many open files in system
httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/httpd/domains/monikorinok.com.flung.error.log.

Any suggestions?
 
shell command

sysctl kern.maxfiles=65535

and add that line to /etc/sysctl.conf so it applies every reboot.
 
Chrysalis said:
shell command

sysctl kern.maxfiles=65535

and add that line to /etc/sysctl.conf so it applies every reboot.

I tried to add that to the systctl.conf and it said permissions denied.
 
jlasman said:
So did it work?

Did I guess right?

:)

Jeff

No, it turned out to be an issue caused by too many processes being called with the default of 4,000. Bumped it up to 25k and it seemed to take care of it
 
Interesting...

issue was processes but error message said maxfiles.

Let's keep that one in mind for the future.

We learn something every day :) .

Jeff
 
Hey JM and Crys! I am locking down some things today and notice that the MIB setting of:

net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2

.... kills imapd. Squirrel and Webmail are both getting timeouts. If I set it to 0 it starts working again. Any ideas? Got to be something about localhost but all other services that talk to localhost are still working fine.

Why this thread.... cause you two are the gurus in here. ;-)

Big Wil
 
that setting affects what happens when connecting to closed ports, so it shouldnt be affecting your imapd and webmail, I use the setting with no problems.
 
It is the only thing that could be though. Here is my results:

sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=1
net.inet.tcp.blackhole: 0 -> 1

In browser:
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
60 : Operation timed out

sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
net.inet.tcp.blackhole: 1 -> 2

In browser:
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
60 : Operation timed out

sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=0
net.inet.tcp.blackhole: 2 -> 0

Everything works fine... Squirrelmail and Webmail.

sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=1
net.inet.tcp.blackhole: 0 -> 1

Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
60 : Operation timed out


Could it be conflicting with the ipfilter settings? Those are pretty simple:

vi /etc/sysctl.conf
net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=0
net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1
net.inet.ip6.fw.verbose=0
#net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 commented for testing
#net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 commented for testing
net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=0
net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=0

vi /etc/rc.conf
ipfilter_enable="YES"
ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules"
ipmon_enable="YES"
ipmon_flags="-Ds"


Big Wil
 
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do you allow localhost all traffic in ipfilter? I use ipfw instead of ipfilter so this could be a problem when using ipfilter.
 
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