site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RxNztaaPufY3nSToS/X1pq+/7N/v3KZxmPJmYmOC8M0=; b=COnZaJYbUAqM6rOND1RnrJ4tarC9gtYhUGRTQEQRX36FrYTWo7eghiPDNnbaetqeSi P1PwenjIRsUCwm8QcwDfsAa8RfToCbVniwfNFERBOO+8J8J6hiPCJ58b87NgziQBzeqN I9AXcZ/0PHeUainyz/+LXCUbz1y+LnFF3Lzx0= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=p8avrxGROahlaZpEYsSwOFj+Gu5mhnIh2IRqcej+ESNKaf85Rl2O24fwmqic3L62hX jFkXWVu/oL5zcdu82X1j4ZehRIIHYFMNwMATaIij/Okm6tCtaSGo5UiDHXVXgsP4LUGE ldLDnmbxhaDSmG8s4Y1nEMZpwaEHoAVZyexH4= On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 21:24, Terry Lambert <tlambert@apple.com> wrote:

Most likely your process table is full because you have a parent process that's failing to reap its children.

If you have Terminal set to not close on exit, and you have a terminal open you can type:

   exec ps gaxlwww

I had another freeze last night. Unfortunately, the exec command does freeze as well. I can type the command via ssh, but it never shows any own output. Internal shell commands still work: a blank "exec" as well as "echo <arg>", "exit", "pwd", "cd <arg>", "times" work. But invocation of any external component leads to the stall. "exec unknowncommand" leads to freeze. I had a few shells open (via separate ssh terminals), so I could run a few more tests that led to freezes. The last one was the most interesting: servo2:~ root# echo "test" >f bash: f: Invalid argument This error makes no sense, does it? I am root, I am in a home dir which is generally writable, and yet it doesn't want to perform the redirection. Could this be an indication of what Andreas Fink suggested earlier:

This sounds like "not enough free file descriptors / too many open files" issues.

Is there really a system-wide (global) limit on available file descs? How could I test how many are left, or which apps use most of them (hmm, that's probabl "lsof")? -- Thomas Tempelmann, http://www.tempel.org/ _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com