From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 11:22:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73B91533B for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfm@immigrant.scorn.org) Received: from immigrant.scorn.org ([194.217.125.38]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11JhgS-000Jv0-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:22:04 +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:22:29 +0000 (GMT) From: John McDermott To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: proc: table is full == ??? In-Reply-To: <199908251709.KAA09523@geeks.valleyip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Brian Skrab wrote: > Hi there. > > I'm seeing this message come up in the dmesg logs from time to time > within the past few days. The system that it's showing up on is > FreeBSD 3.2 with 128M of main memory, and has been running for just > over 19 days without any noticeable problems. Can anyone tell me > what this means and how to fix it? Does it have something to do > with the MAXUSERS setting in the kernel? I assume that it's nothing > to take lightly, but I have been wrong before. > Hello You are correct in that it isnt to be taken lightly. You need to rebuild the kernel with maxusers set to, say, 64 or 128 (I think the maximum is 256 but you need to check this, as I'm not sure..) According to LINT, # The `maxusers' parameter controls the static sizing of a number of # internal system tables by a complicated formula defined in param.c. -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message