From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 05:35:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA01587 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 05:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (mailrelay1.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA01569 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 05:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19780; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:34:23 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970610133423.46411@pavilion.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:34:23 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: systems@pavilion.net Subject: Out of processes! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm running apache on a FBSD-releng2_2 machine, and I appear to be running out of processes for the user that's running the web server :( Here's the sketch: ;-------------------- dougal# su -m webboss No more processes. % exit % exit dougal# ps -auxww | grep ^webboss | wc 80 1142 12588 ;-------------------- The web server is apache and is conjoured up with: ;-------------------- #!/bin/csh -f # # $Id: startit,v 1.5 1997/05/29 09:28:41 joe Exp $ # startit # start web daemon # jcl/pavilion/950901 # This script is for starting the web server with all switches # and secret details taken care of. # Derestrict the shell limit maxproc 500 limit openfiles 2000 /www/bin/httpd -f /www/conf/httpd.conf ;----------------------------- Could this be happening because of a configuration in /etc/login.conf? Light shed in my direction would be happily recieved. Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]