maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0

[Johan Ström]

On 22 jun 2006, at 18.45, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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 :)

Very true.. ;) But are there any reasons NOT to have it on my servers?

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Johan