reece@nadc@sri-unix.UUCP (07/27/83)
Our 11/780 running vanilla 4.1BSD with BBN TCP/IP is getting an error which is unusual since nothing important has been changed lately. The console starts printing "proc: table is full" and when you login on a dz terminal you get "fork: no processes" when you try to do something. I feel that someone out there has probably seen this before--if so please give me some clues as to what might be wrong. I tried to do a process status but couldn't. Jim Reece REECE@NADC
drockwel%bbn-vax@sri-unix.UUCP (07/28/83)
From: Dennis Rockwell <drockwel@bbn-vax> Just like it says, you are running out of proc table slots (a proc table slot is required for each process in the system). There are two possibilities here: 1) you may be running a kernel that isn't configured for enough users; you should increase the "maxusers" parameter in your configuration file. 2) you have a process which is forking uncontrollably. In this case, all you have to do is track it down and stop it (preferably at the source; usually a student either playing with multi-processing or trying to crash the system). The very last proc table slot is reserved for root; log in as root and run ps to find the culprit.