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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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