From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 14:57:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35A4106566C for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4D48FC1F for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id QAA07390; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:57:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4B30DE53.6040801@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:57:23 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Smeets References: <4B30CE81.7030303@smeets.im> In-Reply-To: <4B30CE81.7030303@smeets.im> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Pete French Subject: Re: Disc lock up on 8.0-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:57:47 -0000 on 22/12/2009 15:49 Florian Smeets said the following: > Dec 20 03:03:22 XXX kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see > tuning(7) and login.conf(5). > Dec 20 03:03:53 XXX last message repeated 31 times This seems to be superficially similar to infamous "fork bomb". Would you be able to reproduce this and get 'ps axl' when that starts happening. Alternatively, you may try SW_WATCHDOG kernel option together with watchdogd. That could produce a useful crash dump if/when the system freezes. -- Andriy Gapon