Date: 24 Dec 2003 18:55:32 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maxproc Message-ID: <44k74llqiz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <002f01c3ca0e$1537fed0$0201a8c0@sebxp> References: <002f01c3ca0e$1537fed0$0201a8c0@sebxp>
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"master" <master@tyranz.com> writes: > Hi all, i often get message like this in my box : > kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 5126, please see tuning(7) and > login.conf(5) > > but i doesn t understand well because the aim of login.conf is to limit > process so why this message and what to do ? Figure out why that user is exceeding their maxproc limit, and stop them? I'm working on a patch to handle this situation slightly more elegantly, but I'm not sure that turning the message off (even for users hitting their self-imposed limits) is a good idea. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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