From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 15:55:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F8B16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B5D43D2D for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id BEB0266; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:55:32 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <002f01c3ca0e$1537fed0$0201a8c0@sebxp> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 Dec 2003 18:55:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <002f01c3ca0e$1537fed0$0201a8c0@sebxp> Message-ID: <44k74llqiz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: maxproc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:55:38 -0000 "master" 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"