maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Jun 22 15:43:01 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Jun 22), Johan Strm said:
> On 22 jun 2006, at 09.57, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> >Johan Ström wrote:
> >>Anyway.. I'm using default login.conf, which have unlimited for all
> >>resource limits.. So wtf is this?
> >
> >Look at
> >
> ># sysctl kern.maxproc
> 
> Okay, 4096 procs... But what was those 4k procs...On my newly booted
> i got 127... Well I guess there is now way to find out now.

If it ever happens again, you can drop to the debugger with
Ctrl-Alt-ESC and run "ps" to get a list of running processes.  You
might even be able to recover by killing some offending processes with
"kill 9 <pid>", then continue with "c".

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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