Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:34:32 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does /kernel: proc: table is full mean? Message-ID: <199804252234.PAA22714@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:34 PDT." <199804251526.IAA01643@bang.rain.com>
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>I have got a FreeBSD box running: > >FreeBSD bang.rain.com 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Dec 7 07:50:1 >2 PST 1995 john@bang.rain.com:/a/src/sys/compile/BANG i386 > >It had been up about 250 days with no problems when suddenly out of the blue >last night I got this: > >Apr 24 21:37:54 bang /kernel: proc: table is full >Apr 24 21:38:04 bang last message repeated 14 times >Apr 24 21:38:04 bang sendmail[28488]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: cannot f >ork: Resource temporarily unavailable >Apr 24 21:38:04 bang /kernel: proc: table is full This means that you had too many processes in the process table (which is statically sized). They could have been un-reaped zombies or they could have been various things stuck on some resource wait that will never happen (which would probably indicate a bug). In any case, a "ps -alxw" would have been useful. 2.1.0 is getting pretty ancient these days, and it did have a fair number of bugs in it. You should consider upgrading to 2.2.6. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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