Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 07:12:29 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "maxproc limit exceeded" making no sense Message-ID: <20090509061229.GA63615@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <d3ea75b30905080651p1eaba0dep7073cd62c37f8f3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <d3ea75b30905080651p1eaba0dep7073cd62c37f8f3f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:51:02AM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote: > However what I see regarding proc usage is by uid 82 is: > > # ps -U 82 | wc -l > 723 > > Proccess count for UID 82 is never highter than 913 (monitored the > last whole hour, while log messages were still showing, complaining > about maxproc limit beeing exceeded). I guess user 82 is exceeding their per-user process limit. This is set (traditionally) using the limit or ulimit shell builtins, but can also be configured in /etc/login.conf or by certain pam modules. I'd start with login.conf. David.
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