From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 15:27:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D7D37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eASNRSK25120; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:27:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:27:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Roy Nasser Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Memory utilization rises too much, and then machine crashes... Message-ID: <20001128152728.Q8051@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from roy@vem.ca on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:22:45PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Roy Nasser [001128 15:22] wrote: > > After a while, the memory (with 3 servers) falls to literally 0kb, and the > machine stops handling requests, with an error that says: "no more > processes" whenever i try to enter any command... The machine must be > forcefully restarted (as not even reboot or shutdown commands work), and > then brought up again... > Have you increased maxusers in your kernel config file? I would set it to at least 64. You really should have more memory for a server, most of our boxes have at least 256MB. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message