From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 16:46:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B67416A479 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EFE43D55 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:46:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k5MGjvuF095966; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:45:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:45:57 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Johan =?utf-8?B?U3Ryw7Zt?= Message-ID: <20060622164557.GA74589@dan.emsphone.com> References: <449A4D78.5000106@gmx.de> <6E52A605-0A6E-451B-AC25-33610E0D3838@stromnet.org> <20060622154240.GK9539@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:46:17 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 22), Johan Strm said: > On 22 jun 2006, at 17.42, Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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 ", then continue with "c". > > Hm, I tried this on a 6.1 GENERIC box just now, ctrl-alt-esc doesnt > seem to give me any debugger... I suppose I have to recompile with > DDB for this? Is this recommended for servers where I normally dont > need DDB? Right; DDB isn't in GENERIC. The problem with not including DDB on servers you don't think you'll need it on is: the one time you need it, it's not there :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com