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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:01:41 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "proc: table is full" while cleaning some ports
Message-ID:  <15235.1141.812127.446128@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <88854365@toto.iv>

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parv <parv_@yahoo.com> types:
> sometimes i get that dreaded message when i run 'make clean' in
> some ports like perl5, gnomevfs, or galeon, etc. i tried w/ 
> maxusers=32 in those three ports.
> 
> w/ maxusers=128, i still got the same kernel message when make clean
> was going in gnomevfs and galeon. 
>
> (so far, when i searched the mailing lists, the most noticeable 
> solution was to increase maxusers.)

That's the simplest way to deal with such problems.

> nice -(10|20) didn't help either.

That cuts down on CPU usage, not processes. So it won't help.

> another thing, could it have to do me editing the ports/Mk/bsd*mk files
> and/or using ddb kernel option?

I seriously doubt it.

Personally, I set "NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes" in /etc/make.conf. That solves
that problem, but probably doesn't do what you want. I also set
WRKDIRPREFIX to a scratch disk, and just blow away the entire
directory every so often.

If you are using the -j option when doing "make clean", try reducing
that. If you aren't, make sure you use -B to disable parallel cleans.

	<mike
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