On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:00:36AM -0600, Martin Dorschler wrote: > Just had a box go unresponsive on all services (still pingable) had a > session still open to it but any command would result in the error "no more > processes" Checks clean for a rootkit and nothing amiss in the logs (that I > can find). > I have never heard of a bsd box giving this error before, I can't even > think of what (other than a hack) would cause such an ungraceful freeze.
Something went crazy spawning processes (either quickly or over a long time). Break to DDB to find out what processes are running, or if you have another session still open with processes running, try to kill them to make more space and then immediately run top. Kris
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