On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:49:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to dig up a problem. A server I have running 201 jails with a > total of ~2200 processes gets about every five minutes: > > "maxproc limit exceeded by uid 2, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5)" > > First of all, uid 2 has only a few sendmail processes running (postfix > alias for sendmail) Second of all, I've upped both kern.maxproc and > kern.maxprocperuid to 32k and 16k, well above what this server actually > runs of total processes.
It may only have a few processes running, but uid 2 was the owner of the one process that caused the total to exceed the maxproc limit. > To make things even more interesting, java dies by signal 6 (Abort) > frequently (it's running Tomcat 4.1) (while I was writing this mail, make > buildworld Abort'ed as well :-I ) and I've had reports of this server > panicing a few times the last 24 hours, but since I haven't been around > when it's happened and no-one noted down the panic messages because they > were too stressed about getting the computer up, I have no clue what might > have happened there. This may also be a side-effect of a resource limit being exceeded. You should enable crashdumps, so that you can dissect the panic after the computer reboots. Kris
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