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Subject: Re: portupgrade causes kernel message: maxproc limit exceeded by
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Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes:

> Beginning at some time less than 1 month ago I started getting such
> message. Increasing maxproc doesn't help. Current values are like
> this:
> kern.maxproc: 6164
> kern.maxprocperuid: 5547
>
> What may be causing such condition?

limits(1), perhaps?