From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 13 11:05:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0697A106566C for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 11:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [IPv6:2001:770:10:300::86e2:510b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A9BA8FC14 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 11:05:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 13 May 2009 12:05:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=maths.tcd.ie) by walton.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 13 May 2009 12:05:42 +0100 (BST) To: Eduardo Meyer In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 May 2009 13:04:19 -0300." X-Request-Do: Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:05:42 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200905131205.aa18356@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "maxproc limit exceeded" making no sense X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:05:45 -0000 > This user is classess, therefore its on default class on login.conf, > and all limits there are "unlimited". Might be worth checking that the limits are being set correctly by suing to the user (su -l if they have a real shell, to be certain). Could you be hitting the kern.maxprocperuid sysctl? It doesn't sound like you've enough processes to be hitting that. David.