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From: Brian Quirion <quirion@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Process Hell
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:17:44 -0800
Organization: Internet Middleware
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I recently had a bad experience installing 2.2SNAP
I didnt like the unstableness of the system.
I reinstalled
2.1 RELEASE and noticed this new problem
I can only run about 10 processes before getting
No more processes
or
cannot form
errors.
This never happenned on my original install.
I have changed kern.maxproc and kern.maxprocperuid to no avail.
Here is output from sysctl -a
any and all help APPRECIATED!!
kern.ostype = FreeBSD
kern.osrelease = 2.1.0-RELEASE
kern.osrevision = 199306
kern.version = FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 16 10:47:14 1995
jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
kern.maxvnodes = 1935
kern.maxproc = 2000
kern.maxfiles = 2048
kern.argmax = 65536
kern.securelevel = -1
kern.hostname = madcow.netcache.com
kern.hostid = 0
kern.clockrate: hz = 100, tick = 10000, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128
kern.posix1version = 198808
kern.ngroups = 16
kern.job_control = 1
kern.saved_ids = 1
kern.boottime = Tue Nov 19 14:31:58 1996
kern.domainname =
kern.update = 30
kern.osreldate = 199511
kern.bootfile = /kernel
kern.maxfilesperproc = 2048
kern.maxprocperuid = 1200
kern.dumpdev = disabled
vm.loadavg: 0.16 0.21 0.22
net.inet.ip.forwarding = 0
net.inet.ip.redirect = 1
net.inet.ip.ttl = 64
net.inet.ip.rtexpire = 3600
net.inet.ip.rtminexpire = 10
net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache = 128
net.inet.ip.sourceroute = 0
net.inet.icmp.maskrepl = 0
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 = 1
net.inet.tcp.rfc1644 = 1
net.inet.tcp.mssdflt = 512
net.inet.tcp.rttdflt = 3
net.inet.tcp.keepidle = 14400
net.inet.tcp.keepintvl = 150
net.inet.tcp.sendspace = 16384
net.inet.tcp.recvspace = 16384
net.inet.udp.checksum = 1
net.inet.udp.maxdgram = 9216
net.inet.udp.recvspace = 41600
hw.machine = i386
hw.model = Pentium 735\90 or 815\100
hw.ncpu = 1
hw.byteorder = 1234
hw.physmem = 31977472
hw.usermem = 28188672
hw.pagesize = 4096
hw.floatingpoint = 1