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To: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com>
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Subject: Re: What does /kernel: proc: table is full mean? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:34 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:34:32 -0700
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>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

   This means that you had too many processes in the process table (which is
statically sized). They could have been un-reaped zombies or they could have
been various things stuck on some resource wait that will never happen (which
would probably indicate a bug). In any case, a "ps -alxw" would have been
useful. 2.1.0 is getting pretty ancient these days, and it did have a fair
number of bugs in it. You should consider upgrading to 2.2.6.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


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