From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 25 08:26:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05079 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bang.rain.com (bang.rain.com [204.119.8.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA05072 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@bang.rain.com) Received: (from john@localhost) by bang.rain.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA01643 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:34 -0700 From: John Cavanaugh Message-Id: <199804251526.IAA01643@bang.rain.com> Subject: What does /kernel: proc: table is full mean? To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have got a FreeBSD box running: FreeBSD bang.rain.com 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Dec 7 07:50:1 2 PST 1995 john@bang.rain.com:/a/src/sys/compile/BANG i386 It had been up about 250 days with no problems when suddenly out of the blue last night I got this: Apr 24 21:37:54 bang /kernel: proc: table is full Apr 24 21:38:04 bang last message repeated 14 times Apr 24 21:38:04 bang sendmail[28488]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: cannot f ork: Resource temporarily unavailable Apr 24 21:38:04 bang /kernel: proc: table is full At this point, I could only get a root login and when I did I couldn't do anything (shutdown, reboot, ps, etc.) because there were "no more processes". I had to physically reboot the machine to get it to come back. It came back up fine but I was curious as to what would cause this problem. Thanks. ;-) -- John Cavanaugh "There can be only one." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message