5.3 and maxproc exceeded

[niklas at registrar.no]

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.

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.

But if someone have any ideas or guesses about the maxproc problem, I bet
that would help me nesting up the problem. :)

Cheers

        Nik