From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 4:56:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D5837B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13WHD6-000G11-00; Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:48:16 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA04290; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:48:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:48:16 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: /var/account Message-ID: <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000905123015.C84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Thanks, Paul for this info. What I was seeing is the size of the /var > slice going up and up and I narrowed on this file. So could that also be > the reason I get the message " /kernel: proc: table is full" or this is > being caused by something else? All these issues are coming to me after > the recent cvsup.... No, "proc: table is full" means the process table has full, that has nothing to do with the filesystem. Basically it means you have too many processes running at once and you'll need to increase maxusers in your kernel config or kern.maxproc with sysctl. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message