maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 22), Johan Strm said:
> On 22 jun 2006, at 17.42, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Hm, I tried this on a 6.1 GENERIC box just now, ctrl-alt-esc doesnt  
> seem to give me any debugger... I suppose I have to recompile with  
> DDB for this? Is this recommended for servers where I normally dont  
> need DDB?

Right; DDB isn't in GENERIC.  The problem with not including DDB on
servers you don't think you'll need it on is:  the one time you need
it, it's not there :)

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	Dan Nelson
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