BETA6 kern.maxfiles messages
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Date: 10/06/04
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To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:04:08 -0700
I'm suspicious someone was trying to probe or dos this server, but if there
is some other possible explanation, and since I have only seen this on a 5.3
BETA box I thought I would post it here. It looks to me like someone was
trying to do a small dos attack perhaps?
Today I had these messages in dmesg.today:
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 70, please see tuning(7).
kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7).
......................
The offending processes are:
# ps 88
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
88 ?? IL 0:00.00 [nfsiod 3]
# ps 70
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
70 ?? WL 0:08.60 [swi3: cambio]
This is what kern.maxfiles looks like under normal operation. This server
doesn't vary that much in traffic and these numbers shouldn't go up or down
too much. I have apache/mod_perl and postgresql running and that is about
it. Maybe a little bit of variation in maxfiles is normal, but I can't
think of what would open up almost 12,000 extra files.
# sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 12328
# sysctl kern.openfiles
kern.openfiles: 492
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