On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 02:21:58PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: > What is the reason that kern.maxproc is set to 532? > What is the tradeoff from increasing it? > > I'm looking at dealing with an error "/bsd: proc: table is full" on an > OpenBSD 4.2 STABLE x86 host, with the GENERIC kernel. Guessing from the > archives on this and other lists, it seems a workaround to deal with it > would be to muck about with kern.maxproc
It's a safeguard, just increase it to a sensible number or fix your application. > > The "proc: table is full" error is probably caused by a perl-based CGI > script which seems to spawn many processes. It will take time to deal > with that properly and a quick and dirty workaround is needed. > > Regards > -Lars
