"maxproc limit exceeded" making no sense

[David Malone]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:51:02AM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote:
> However what I see regarding proc usage is by uid 82 is:
> 
> # ps -U 82 | wc -l
>      723
> 
> Proccess count for UID 82 is never highter than 913 (monitored the
> last whole hour, while log messages were still showing, complaining
> about maxproc limit beeing exceeded).

I guess user 82 is exceeding their per-user process limit. This is set
(traditionally) using the limit or ulimit shell builtins, but can also
be configured in /etc/login.conf or by certain pam modules. I'd start
with login.conf.

	David.