Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: negative proccnt Message-ID: <14785.15822.898420.198946@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> References: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com> <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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>>>>> "DL" == Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> writes: DL> It might cut down on the number of complaints, but not eliminate them. DL> Anyway, proccnt shouldn't even go to 0 for uid 0, since init is always DL> running. DL> Is there anything unusual running on this machine? Also, your machine DL> seems to be going through a lot of processes, since this message could DL> only occur as a result of a fork(), exit(), or one of the setuid family DL> of syscalls. The main thing going on is that the Lyris mail list server is running under linux emulation. Lyris uses linux threads, which initiate a new process under freebsd. Unfortunatley, these thread-processes are not reaped so my proc table gets quite full, and I need to stop and restart lyris once per hour to keep the number of zombies low. I believe the proccnt went negative after one of these restarts. I might have preferred a panic() to keep the syslog from getting so filled up. ;-) Other than that, just running postfix, named, and apache for internal uses only. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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