Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:57:23 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.im> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: Disc lock up on 8.0-STABLE Message-ID: <4B30DE53.6040801@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4B30CE81.7030303@smeets.im> References: <E1NN3fP-00048P-Tb@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <4B30CE81.7030303@smeets.im>
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on 22/12/2009 15:49 Florian Smeets said the following: > Dec 20 03:03:22 XXX kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see > tuning(7) and login.conf(5). > Dec 20 03:03:53 XXX last message repeated 31 times This seems to be superficially similar to infamous "fork bomb". Would you be able to reproduce this and get 'ps axl' when that starts happening. Alternatively, you may try SW_WATCHDOG kernel option together with watchdogd. That could produce a useful crash dump if/when the system freezes. -- Andriy Gapon
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