Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:14:13 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some days, it doesn't pay to upgrade ... Message-ID: <B895D147086CFBB570703864@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <6135184.31172636330732.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> References: <6135184.31172636330732.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 20:18:50 -0800 Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org> wrote: > > ----- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> 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-----
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