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From: Ian Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: "no more processes"
To: chad@pengar.com
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    Increase the maxusers options in the kernel.  I
believe that a more detailed description of how many
processes are allocated to n user is explained here..

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html


good luck

Ian
--- "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net
LLC" <chad@pengar.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am running 4.2-RELEASE on a dual Celeron system. 
> The system is mainly 
> running a few versions of Roxen (www.roxen.com) web
> server, mySQL database, 
> and various perl and other CGIs.  Very little actual
> user login occurs.
> 
> The system had been up about 2 weeks when I logged
> in last night and 
> started getting "no more processes" messages for any
> command I typed that 
> was not built into the shell.  Additional SSH
> connections failed. 
> Processes, like Roxen and mySQL that were already
> running and not forking, 
> continued to run.  Logging out of my SSH session and
> logging into the 
> console I was able to reboot.
> 
> I figured that my new kernel needed some parameters
> changed in it and went 
> to the kernel config files.  But I am not sure what
> parameters to look at. 
> Looking in LINT I didn't see any parameters that
> appear to influence 
> process table sizes etc.  I have vague memories in
> 2.2.x of having such 
> parameters.
> 
> Can someone provide me with some hints or pointers
> to docs that would help 
> me understand in detail what was probably happening
> and what precautions I 
> should take to make sure it does not happen again?
> 
> Thanks
> Chad
> Shire.Net LLC
> 
> 
> Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC
> Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web
> hosting
> Chad Leigh	
> chad@pengar.com			chad@shire.net
> 
> 
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