From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 13:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2457737B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.198]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13399; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by imap.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA88309; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA26980; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:46:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: negative proccnt Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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