From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 16:51:21 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 79AB716A481 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:51:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596B843D5D for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:50:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from elfi.stromnet.org (213.67.205.103) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 449A7EFE000139DD; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:50:39 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AE461D43; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:50:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at stromnet.org Received: from elfi.stromnet.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (elfi.stromnet.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DwT6LlcEqh+G; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff20:2:211:24ff:fea2:8e01] (unknown [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff20:2:211:24ff:fea2:8e01]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CB561D31; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:50:35 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20060622164557.GA74589@dan.emsphone.com> References: <449A4D78.5000106@gmx.de> <6E52A605-0A6E-451B-AC25-33610E0D3838@stromnet.org> <20060622154240.GK9539@dan.emsphone.com> <20060622164557.GA74589@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:51:19 +0200 To: Dan Nelson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) 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 16:51:21 -0000 On 22 jun 2006, at 18.45, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 :) Very true.. ;) But are there any reasons NOT to have it on my servers? -- Johan