From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 9 07:38:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51B81065670 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 07:38:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [IPv6:2001:770:10:300::86e2:510b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F37278FC14 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 07:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 9 May 2009 08:38:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 07:12:29 +0100 From: David Malone To: Eduardo Meyer Message-ID: <20090509061229.GA63615@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "maxproc limit exceeded" making no sense X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 07:38:53 -0000 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.