From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 16:14:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADF916A408 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E66F13C442 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:14:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6F285C930; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:15 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13076-02; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-89-241-126.eastlink.ca [24.89.241.126]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83ED485C8C7; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA75D5ED57; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:13 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:13 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Tom Samplonius Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <6135184.31172636330732.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> References: <6135184.31172636330732.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some days, it doesn't pay to upgrade ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:14:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 20:18:50 -0800 Tom Samplonius wrote: > > ----- "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: >> Feb 27 04:32:49 mars uptimec: The server requested that we do a new >> login >> Feb 27 04:33:00 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please >> see >> tuning(7) and login.conf(5). >> Feb 27 04:33:10 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 60, please >> see >> tuning(7) and login.conf(5). >> >> Stupid question: why isn't there some mechanism that prevents new >> processes >> from starting up, instead of locking up the whole server? I'm not >> asking for > ... > > Isn't that what is happening? When maxproc is hit, new processes can't be > created. It is harmless, except for the uid that exceeded its process limit. > > I think the hang is some side-effect. Either because init can't fork a > process, therefore there is nothing to login to. Did you try ping the system > from remote to really see whether it was a "solid" hang? Or did you just > pound on the keyboard? ping continues to work ... its a remote server, without a serial console, so doing much more on that particular server is a bit more difficult :( all our newer stuff (which, of course, is running great), have remote consoles setup on them ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF5apV4QvfyHIvDvMRApLEAKCAiCPNa4j2173DgqJm6tuaL/itAwCeNokY ueJxtSGcp6TG2tCy8Tir1sM= =K7bg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----