From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 07:47:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17597 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17586 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:47:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA00278; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:46:58 -0800 Received: from [199.183.207.97] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 19620315; Mon Nov 09 07:45 PST 1998 Message-Id: <364738BC.6868@echidna.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 10:47:24 -0800 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: David Jeffers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procfs too small? References: <199811090203.SAA04394@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > > >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. But if I do df -ik, the .proc inode usage seems to correlate with number of processes from ps -ax. Is this so, and is the percentage inode usage displayed a meaningful indicator of whether you need to increase "maxusers", or should one deduce that by other means? -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message