From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 18:02:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22860 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22854 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xroot@root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04394; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 18:03:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811090203.SAA04394@root.com> To: David Jeffers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procfs too small? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 20:13:56 EST." <19981108201356.A10944@primus.mynet.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 18:03:34 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >How do I increase the size of procfs? I keep running out of >room in the process table after as little as 8 days uptime. > >$ df >Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/sd0s1a 196958 29688 151514 16% / >/dev/sd1s1e 992734 27186 886130 3% /home >/dev/sd0s1f 7186406 1125014 5486480 17% /usr >/dev/sd1s1f 6989414 385074 6045188 6% /usr/local >/dev/sd0s1e 594846 4192 543068 1% /var >procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc That has nothing to do with the "size" of procfs (which actually has no size since it is a pseudo filesystem). In any case, you need to increase the "maxusers" parameter in your kernel config file. -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