Re: Some days, it doesn't pay to upgrade ...

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- --On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 20:18:50 -0800 Tom Samplonius
<tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


----- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Feb 27 04:32:49 mars uptimec: The server requested that we do a new
login
Feb 27 04:33:00 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please
see
tuning(7) and login.conf(5).
Feb 27 04:33:10 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 60, please
see
tuning(7) and login.conf(5).

Stupid question: why isn't there some mechanism that prevents new
processes
from starting up, instead of locking up the whole server? I'm not
asking for
...

Isn't that what is happening? When maxproc is hit, new processes can't be
created. It is harmless, except for the uid that exceeded its process limit.

I think the hang is some side-effect. Either because init can't fork a
process, therefore there is nothing to login to. Did you try ping the system
from remote to really see whether it was a "solid" hang? Or did you just
pound on the keyboard?

ping continues to work ... its a remote server, without a serial console, so
doing much more on that particular server is a bit more difficult :( all our
newer stuff (which, of course, is running great), have remote consoles setup on
them ...


Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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