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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:37:03 +0200
From:      Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   /kernel: proc: table is full
Message-ID:  <3610E27F.9617D55E@woudt.nl>

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My FreeBSD machine is acting a little bit strange:

>From /var/log/messages:

> Sep 29 05:55:00 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 05:55:08 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 05:56:44 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 05:56:44 cal007109 inetd[160]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Sep 29 06:00:00 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 06:00:00 cal007109 last message repeated 2 times
> Sep 29 06:05:00 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 06:15:00 cal007109 last message repeated 10 times
> Sep 29 06:25:00 cal007109 last message repeated 31 times
..... a lot more 'last message repeated xx times'
> Sep 29 08:15:00 cal007109 last message repeated 7 times
> Sep 29 08:20:00 cal007109 last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 29 08:23:08 cal007109 /kernel: nfs server 130.89.221.198:/dir: is alive again
> Sep 29 08:23:09 cal007109 /kernel: proc: table is full
> Sep 29 08:23:11 cal007109 last message repeated 24 times


I also received this mail from the cron deamon:
 
> From:    root@cal007109.student.utwente.nl (Cron Daemon)
> Subject: Cron <root@cal007109> /usr/libexec/atrun
> Date:    Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:23:12 +0200
>
> Cannot fork

Did I run into some resource limit? If so, what do I need to change in the
kernel? 

Or is it some other problem? If you need more information to answer this
question, please ask. I would be glad to provide you with more details.

Edwin

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