Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 12:48:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: proc table is full Message-ID: <199507111648.MAA03821@ns1.win.net>
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> From: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey)
> fluke /kernel: proc: table is full
> fluke inetd[73]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable.
> About my system:
> FreeBSD 2.0-950412 on the Everex 486DX33 with 16 MB RAM. I have the
> following packages installed:
> gated
> Pine-3.91/Pico
> ELM 2.4
> Majordomo-1.93
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> CERN httpd 3.0
> There's no X stuff. Since April, I have not had any problems. By today,
> the system was up for 9 days.
> Any info/hints will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Probably the mailing list is creating tons of processes. I had to modify
our majordomo to cause sendmail to just queue the mail instead of attempting
to deliver it right away. There is a sendmail switch you can put in the
aliases file entry "-odq".
If there is a lot of this activity, and a lot of web stuff you may want to
do the following things to your system:
1. Make sure you have enough swap space configured. I use 128mb on my
main server.
2. In your kernel config file:
maxusers 256
options "CHILD_MAX=128"
options "OPEN_MAX=128"
options "NMBCLUSTERS=512"
Good luck!
Mark Hittinger
bugs@win.net
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