BETA6 kern.maxfiles messages
Andy Fawcett
andy at athame.co.uk
Tue Oct 5 23:43:41 PDT 2004
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:04, freebsd wrote:
> I'm suspicious someone was trying to probe or dos this server, but if
> there is some other possible explanation, and since I have only seen
> this on a 5.3 BETA box I thought I would post it here. It looks to
> me like someone was trying to do a small dos attack perhaps?
>
> Today I had these messages in dmesg.today:
>
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 70, please see tuning(7).
> kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7).
^^^
>
> The offending processes are:
> # ps 88
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 88 ?? IL 0:00.00 [nfsiod 3]
> # ps 70
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 70 ?? WL 0:08.60 [swi3: cambio]
You shouldn't be looking at process IDs, but you should be looking at
User IDs.
Users 70 and 88 are (or at least should be) for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
A.
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