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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:35:09 +0100
From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: Re: Odd quirks after updating to 5.2...
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:08:26AM -0800, Peter Losher wrote:
> 
> Ever since I updated one of our other boxes from 5.1 to 5.2, I have been 
> having issues with the periodic processes not finishing up properly, 
> which after a week or so fills up all the permitted forked processes, 
> and then causes FreeBSD to deprive itself of resources.

For what it's worth, this happened to me two weeks ago on a 5.1-RELEASE-p2
system. Never seen it before, didn't happen again since. I didn't find
any clue on what could have caused this.