From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 10:53:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 F105916A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:53:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.registrar.no (pop.registrar.no [217.116.80.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6625443D39 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:53:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from niklas@registrar.no) Received: by mail1.registrar.no (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 82A61525333; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:47:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.registrar.no (monteverdi.registrar.no [217.116.80.4]) by mail1.registrar.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 380BA525312 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:47:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from 217.116.81.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user niklas@registrar.no) by webmail.registrar.no with HTTP; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:49:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <1653.217.116.81.4.1103798990.squirrel@webmail.registrar.no> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:49:50 +0100 (CET) From: niklas@registrar.no To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: 5.3 and maxproc exceeded X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 23 Dec 2004 10:53:28 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to dig up a problem. A server I have running 201 jails with a total of ~2200 processes gets about every five minutes: "maxproc limit exceeded by uid 2, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5)" First of all, uid 2 has only a few sendmail processes running (postfix alias for sendmail) Second of all, I've upped both kern.maxproc and kern.maxprocperuid to 32k and 16k, well above what this server actually runs of total processes. To make things even more interesting, java dies by signal 6 (Abort) frequently (it's running Tomcat 4.1) (while I was writing this mail, make buildworld Abort'ed as well :-I ) and I've had reports of this server panicing a few times the last 24 hours, but since I haven't been around when it's happened and no-one noted down the panic messages because they were too stressed about getting the computer up, I have no clue what might have happened there. But if someone have any ideas or guesses about the maxproc problem, I bet that would help me nesting up the problem. :) Cheers Nik