From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 14: 6:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [204.117.82.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5322437B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F57E8D4 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:06:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8EL6Nl64306; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:06:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14785.15822.898420.198946@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:06:22 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: negative proccnt In-Reply-To: <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> References: <14785.12095.673316.885249@onceler.kciLink.com> <200009142046.NAA26980@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "DL" == Don Lewis writes: DL> It might cut down on the number of complaints, but not eliminate them. DL> Anyway, proccnt shouldn't even go to 0 for uid 0, since init is always DL> running. DL> Is there anything unusual running on this machine? Also, your machine DL> seems to be going through a lot of processes, since this message could DL> only occur as a result of a fork(), exit(), or one of the setuid family DL> of syscalls. The main thing going on is that the Lyris mail list server is running under linux emulation. Lyris uses linux threads, which initiate a new process under freebsd. Unfortunatley, these thread-processes are not reaped so my proc table gets quite full, and I need to stop and restart lyris once per hour to keep the number of zombies low. I believe the proccnt went negative after one of these restarts. I might have preferred a panic() to keep the syslog from getting so filled up. ;-) Other than that, just running postfix, named, and apache for internal uses only. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message