From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 14:19: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8B437B618 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA35211 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:20:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:20:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: negative proccnt In-Reply-To: <14785.15822.898420.198946@onceler.kciLink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "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. You might consider switching to majordomo or listproc. Both are written in perl, and will run natively under FreeBSD. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message