From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 13:53:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9F037B65D for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar.bsdguru.com (unknown [165.24.155.244]) by the.oneinsane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35349B7C; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from venus.bsdguru.com (venus.n2.net [207.113.133.11]) by darkstar.bsdguru.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AF11E9B; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by venus.bsdguru.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C48DB265; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:53:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:53:21 -0800 From: Ben Lovett To: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "no more processes" Message-ID: <20010219135320.A2560@happypacket.com> References: <3336257933.982588801@[192.168.99.123]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3336257933.982588801@[192.168.99.123]>; from chad@pengar.com on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:20:01PM -0500 X-Organization: San Diego BSD Users Group [http://www.sdbug.org] X-Disclaimer: All messages are the opinion of my employer.. They just don't know it yet. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD venus 4.2-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (11% of Full) X-GPG-Key: http://www.oneinsane.net/~blovett/blovett.pgp X-GPG-Fingerprint: C75F A722 1518 03B8 26C3 77A1 7C76 8AFA EBAB 2004 X-Uptime: 1:51PM up 3:35, 9 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.17, 0.11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Chad, Try increasing your "maxusers" value in your kernel to something higher than 32, like 64, 128, etc.. But I think it must be a multiple of 32 (please correct me if I am wrong). -ben Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC (chad@pengar.com) wrote: > Hi All > > I am running 4.2-RELEASE on a dual Celeron system. The system is mainly > running a few versions of Roxen (www.roxen.com) web server, mySQL database, > and various perl and other CGIs. Very little actual user login occurs. > > The system had been up about 2 weeks when I logged in last night and > started getting "no more processes" messages for any command I typed that > was not built into the shell. Additional SSH connections failed. > Processes, like Roxen and mySQL that were already running and not forking, > continued to run. Logging out of my SSH session and logging into the > console I was able to reboot. > > I figured that my new kernel needed some parameters changed in it and went > to the kernel config files. But I am not sure what parameters to look at. > Looking in LINT I didn't see any parameters that appear to influence > process table sizes etc. I have vague memories in 2.2.x of having such > parameters. > > Can someone provide me with some hints or pointers to docs that would help > me understand in detail what was probably happening and what precautions I > should take to make sure it does not happen again? > > Thanks > Chad > Shire.Net LLC > > > Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC > Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting > Chad Leigh > chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Lovett printf("Hello world!); don4r return 0; don4r@bsdguru.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message