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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:42:40 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Johan =?utf-8?B?U3Ryw7Zt?= <johan@stromnet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0
Message-ID:  <20060622154240.GK9539@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <6E52A605-0A6E-451B-AC25-33610E0D3838@stromnet.org>
References:  <F388196D-0353-4DF9-9A51-A88EBA01149A@stromnet.org> <449A4D78.5000106@gmx.de> <6E52A605-0A6E-451B-AC25-33610E0D3838@stromnet.org>

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In the last episode (Jun 22), Johan Strm said:
> On 22 jun 2006, at 09.57, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> >Johan Ström wrote:
> >>Anyway.. I'm using default login.conf, which have unlimited for all
> >>resource limits.. So wtf is this?
> >
> >Look at
> >
> ># sysctl kern.maxproc
> 
> Okay, 4096 procs... But what was those 4k procs...On my newly booted
> i got 127... Well I guess there is now way to find out now.

If it ever happens again, you can drop to the debugger with
Ctrl-Alt-ESC and run "ps" to get a list of running processes.  You
might even be able to recover by killing some offending processes with
"kill 9 <pid>", then continue with "c".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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