Bob Beck wrote:
I am having problems with my server, this box has been running OBSD
for the last 3/4 years without problems. A few months ago the box
begun to experience lockups once time at week during peak hours, now
the lockup is several times a week.
The last messages in the system logs are "/bsd: proc: table is full", I
think that the load (which isn't very high) is stressing the machine and
finally hangs the server. If I don't get it wrong a properly configurated
system doesn't fail under stress.
"load" meaning load average measures the run queue. Your
kernel is screaming that it's out of processes. perhaps you should
sorry about not being more contrete here.
I said "load" in a more general sense, not "load average" as reported
by some system utilities.
the CPU is idle 50% of the time, there is sufficient memory for regular
processes and the machine is not swapping. Only sporadic and bursty read/
write operations happen at the disks.
run a ps -auwx and see what's chewing them all up? When you
are out of processes, not much happens.
unfortunatelly when I get the "table is full" error is too late and
the machine is hang :-(
