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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/
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