On 10 Jul 2000, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> some time ago, I had a similar problem. too many processes forked, power off...
> reboot impossible. the cause of this problem was to define nisdomainname w/
> activating nis services. so portmap give up thoses processes to log errors
> messages because it was trying to contact nis services which was not there.
> I take some time to find /etc/login.conf. the question is, why all default
> limits are so permissives (unlimited) by default ? as I remember, it took me
> some days w/ many boots to find the reason of portmap failure. an idea would
> be to add some limit to limit the number of processes forked by a process (at
> one time in addition to the number of processes by user which may be relative
> to the system wide limit (maxprocperproc=nproc-10). which is something like the
> openfiles limit (w/o the system wide reference but which is possible as well,
> like maxfilesperproc=nfiles-10).
>
It isn't exactly what you asked for, but PR 15860 is a start.
Kelly
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