From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 14:14:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11414 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:14:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (root@ss1000-eth.ms.mff.cuni.cz [194.50.18.221]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11400 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulab-13.ms.mff.cuni.cz (vmen3237@ulab-13.ms.mff.cuni.cz [194.50.19.113]) by ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA05176; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:14:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (vmen3237@localhost) by ulab-13.ms.mff.cuni.cz (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id XAA13610; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:14:20 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: ulab-13.ms.mff.cuni.cz: vmen3237 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:14:20 +0100 (MET) From: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" X-Sender: vmen3237@ulab-13 Reply-To: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange output from ps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > Cron Daemon said: > > > ps: kvm_getprocs: Cannot allocate memory > Could be because of too many processes running (either of one user or total)? I've experienced problems with ps, the message was "Too many open files in system". It was a global limit problem, and I had to recompile the kernel with increased MAXUSERS value (which increases NPROCS which increases maxfiles). A local limit problem can be solved with ulimit - try to increase the # of processes - ulimit -u # Vlada Mencl