Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:51:02 -0300 From: Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: "maxproc limit exceeded" making no sense Message-ID: <d3ea75b30905080651p1eaba0dep7073cd62c37f8f3f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello,
I have a problem which makes no sense to me, at least not the way I
understand. My mail server is compaining about maxproc limit:
# tail /var/log/messages
May 8 10:34:15 mx kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 82, please
see tuning(7) and
login.conf(5).
May 8 10:34:38 mx last message repeated 12 times
May 8 10:35:14 mx last message repeated 18 times
May 8 10:36:32 mx last message repeated 41 times
May 8 10:36:35 mx kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 82, please
see tuning(7) and
login.conf(5).
My maxproc as well as maxfiles are artificially raised (a lot raised):
# sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 80000
# sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
kern.maxfilesperproc: 80000
# sysctl kern.maxproc
kern.maxproc: 9000
# sysctl kern.maxprocperuid
kern.maxprocperuid: 80000
However what I see regarding proc usage is by uid 82 is:
# ps -U 82 | wc -l
723
Proccess count for UID 82 is never highter than 913 (monitored the
last whole hour, while log messages were still showing, complaining
about maxproc limit beeing exceeded).
I would like to understand and figure out what I need to tune in order
to raise the current limit, and also find what the current limit is.
Thank you a lot and in advance.
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Eduardo Meyer
pessoal: dudu.meyer@gmail.com
profissional: ddm.farmaciap@saude.gov.br
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