From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 10:28: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F03A37B4EC for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:27:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.64.45.172] (helo=[192.168.99.123]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #5) id 14UoUI-0008wv-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:28:14 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:20:01 -0500 From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Reply-To: chad@pengar.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "no more processes" Message-ID: <3336257933.982588801@[192.168.99.123]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All I am running 4.2-RELEASE on a dual Celeron system. The system is mainly running a few versions of Roxen (www.roxen.com) web server, mySQL database, and various perl and other CGIs. Very little actual user login occurs. The system had been up about 2 weeks when I logged in last night and started getting "no more processes" messages for any command I typed that was not built into the shell. Additional SSH connections failed. Processes, like Roxen and mySQL that were already running and not forking, continued to run. Logging out of my SSH session and logging into the console I was able to reboot. I figured that my new kernel needed some parameters changed in it and went to the kernel config files. But I am not sure what parameters to look at. Looking in LINT I didn't see any parameters that appear to influence process table sizes etc. I have vague memories in 2.2.x of having such parameters. Can someone provide me with some hints or pointers to docs that would help me understand in detail what was probably happening and what precautions I should take to make sure it does not happen again? Thanks Chad Shire.Net LLC Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting Chad Leigh chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message