freebsd stable - Jun 2006 - maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0

Hi

Today I woke up and was not able to log in to my system (ssh). Some  
stuff worked (DNS for example, this box runs bind), altough the IMAP  
server didnt work to well...
Anyway, I checked out local console:

maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5).

Repeated 23 times...

I was not able to do anything, neither local or remote, ACPI didnt  
work very well except for giving me
acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet)
the second time I pressed the power button... So a hard reboot it was.

Anyway.. I'm using default login.conf, which have unlimited for all  
resource limits.. So wtf is this?

As far as I know there shouldnt be any processes running away but you  
never know... The only thing would be a "umount -f /some/nfs" and a  
"df -h" running (the umount as root) but both hanged since the NFS  
volume was unreachable, but why would this fork like this?

Dunno what more info could be useable, doesnt have much more in logs...

Str?m

On 22 jun 2006, at 09.57, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Johan Str?m wrote:
>> Anyway.. I'm using default login.conf, which have unlimited for all
>> resource limits.. So wtf is this?
>
> Look at
>
> # sysctl kern.maxproc
Okay, 4096 procs... But what was those 4k procs...On my newly booted  
i got 127... Well I guess there is now way to find out now.

Johan Str?m wrote:
> Anyway.. I'm using default login.conf, which have unlimited for all
> resource limits.. So wtf is this?
Look at

# sysctl kern.maxproc