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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:11:44 -0500
From:      "Simon" <simon@optinet.com>
To:        "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New Error Messages :-(
Message-ID:  <20031224231156.6DB1843D1F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <447k0ln9kt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Ops... I confused maxproc with cputime limit, sorry for the post.
The error message being new, made me confuse it with what
I thought replaced cputime limit error messages.

-Simon

On 24 Dec 2003 17:18:42 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes:
>
>> "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Before version 4.9, FBSD used to print/log:
>> > pid 20055 (cmd), uid 1057, was killed: exceeded maximum CPU limit
>> > Now, all it prints is: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 1203, please see tuning(7)...
>> > making it impossible to identify which process was killed, am I missing something
>> > in 4.9 which would make it print the PID killed as well?
>> > 
>> > Any pointers would be appreciated.
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c?f=u&only_with_tag=RELENG_4&logsort=date
>> 
>> The relevant change was Revision 1.72.2.15, which put a maxproc check
>> in a place that hadn't had one at all before.  This was a fix to a bug
>> (which may have been theoretically present for a long time, but hadn't
>> affected any hardware built until recently), so "fixing" this would be
>> more complicated than just changing an error string...
>
>No, I think I'm wrong.  The task context is, in fact, available at
>that point.
>




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