From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 4:55: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4B014F4E for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 04:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 11vK8O-000IWE-00; Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:54:24 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: proc: table is full In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:13:29 +0200." Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:54:24 +0200 Message-ID: <71189.944571264@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:13:29 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Right after I have setup /etc/hosts.allow file I was > trying if it is working good but at the same time I got > this message in my logs. I'm not sure that the two are related if you're using a modern FreeBSD. It's possible you have a buggy inetd, but you'd need to send us the output of the following command: ident /usr/sbin/inetd It may simply be that it's coincidental that you've noticed these messages while you're verifying your /etc/hosts.allow configuration. The messages indicates that a call to fork() failed because creating a new process would break the maxproc limit in the kernel. You'll find the code which generates the error message in src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c The maxproc variable is declared in src/sys/conf/param.c or src/sys/i386/conf/param.c depending on the version of FreeBSD you're using. You'll see that it's a function of the kernel configuration value ``maxusers''. If you have maxusers set very low (say 16), you might want to bump it up, provided that you're simply running a large number of processes. NB!!! You bump maxusers by changing your custom kernel config file, not by mucking about with param.c! :-) But let us know what version of inetd you're running by supplying the output of the ident command above and we'll be able to tell you whether you have a buggy version. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message