Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:25:01 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var/account Message-ID: <20000905152501.C25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:48:16PM %2B0100 References: <20000905123015.C84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009051233120.1183-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> <20000905124816.C72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Quoting Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>: [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
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