Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:28 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: negative proccnt Message-ID: <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com>
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On Sep 14, 4:04pm, Vivek Khera wrote: } Subject: negative proccnt } I'm getting these errors in my /var/log/messages file since yesterday: } } Sep 14 15:57:45 truffula /kernel: negative proccnt for uid = 0 } Sep 14 15:58:12 truffula last message repeated 3 times } Sep 14 16:00:23 truffula last message repeated 32 times } Sep 14 16:02:21 truffula last message repeated 8 times } } thousands upon thousands of them. This is the second report of this problem that I've seen. It's something that shouldn't be happpening, and I don't see how it can. I guess you should be glad that I was convinced to change this from a panic() to a printf(). } Is there anything short of rebooting that can make this stop? } Wouldn't it make sense for the kernel to zero out the proccnt if it } falls negative after issuing the above warning? It might cut down on the number of complaints, but not eliminate them. Anyway, proccnt shouldn't even go to 0 for uid 0, since init is always running. Is there anything unusual running on this machine? Also, your machine seems to be going through a lot of processes, since this message could only occur as a result of a fork(), exit(), or one of the setuid family of syscalls. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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