From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 12: 6:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5421C37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F30671D9A; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:06:47 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:06:47 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: /var/account Message-ID: <20000905210647.A53631@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <20000905123015.C84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000905152501.C25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000905152501.C25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>; from vedette@iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:25:01PM +0300 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file and add "kern.maxprocperuid=1000", without the quotes. See the man page for sysctl.conf. man 5 sysctl.conf On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:25:01PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Quoting Ben Smithurst : > [000905 14:55]: > Ben Smithurst>Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Ben Smithurst> > Ben Smithurst>> Thanks, Paul for this info. What I was seeing is the size of the /var > Ben Smithurst>> slice going up and up and I narrowed on this file. So could that also be > Ben Smithurst>> the reason I get the message " /kernel: proc: table is full" or this is > Ben Smithurst>> being caused by something else? All these issues are coming to me after > Ben Smithurst>> the recent cvsup.... > Ben Smithurst> > Ben Smithurst>No, "proc: table is full" means the process table has full, that has > Ben Smithurst>nothing to do with the filesystem. Basically it means you have too many > Ben Smithurst>processes running at once and you'll need to increase maxusers in your > Ben Smithurst>kernel config or kern.maxproc with sysctl. > > I did this, is it okay and is it made permanent? > sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=1000 > I did not mind the number, obtained from 'man sysctl'. What is the net > effect? Do I need to make kern.maxproc=1000 also? > > NB: You're inducting me to FBSD internals. Thank you so much. > > > -- > Odhiambo Washington > Systems Administrator > Inter-Connect Ltd. > 3rd Flr The Chancery > Valley Rd > PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA > Tel: 254 2 711140 > Fax: 254 2 718418 > > One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. -Josef Stalin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Best Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ "This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does something child-like." -- Forbes Burkowski, Computer Science 454 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message