Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 08:26:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Cavanaugh <john@bang.rain.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What does /kernel: proc: table is full mean? Message-ID: <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 At this point, I could only get a root login and when I did I couldn't do anything (shutdown, reboot, ps, etc.) because there were "no more processes". I had to physically reboot the machine to get it to come back. It came back up fine but I was curious as to what would cause this problem. Thanks. ;-) -- John Cavanaugh "There can be only one." <john@bang.rain.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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