From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 5:26:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5C837B43E for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13WHmg-000AUw-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:25:02 +0300 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:25:01 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: /var/account Message-ID: <20000905152501.C25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20000905123015.C84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:48:16PM +0100 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 3:22PM up 8 days, 4:12, 6 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.27, 0.25 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Ben Smithurst : [000905 14:55]: Ben Smithurst>Odhiambo Washington wrote: Ben Smithurst> Ben Smithurst>> Thanks, Paul for this info. What I was seeing is the size of the /var Ben Smithurst>> slice going up and up and I narrowed on this file. So could that also be Ben Smithurst>> the reason I get the message " /kernel: proc: table is full" or this is Ben Smithurst>> being caused by something else? All these issues are coming to me after Ben Smithurst>> the recent cvsup.... Ben Smithurst> Ben Smithurst>No, "proc: table is full" means the process table has full, that has Ben Smithurst>nothing to do with the filesystem. Basically it means you have too many Ben Smithurst>processes running at once and you'll need to increase maxusers in your Ben Smithurst>kernel config or kern.maxproc with sysctl. I did this, is it okay and is it made permanent? sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=1000 I did not mind the number, obtained from 'man sysctl'. What is the net effect? Do I need to make kern.maxproc=1000 also? NB: You're inducting me to FBSD internals. Thank you so much. -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. -Josef Stalin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message