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=Xjt9ww0B63ulLRw6d5Zsd0Aw3kPvqcNeF+Trpti6itM=; b=C3wWtw3v9/dT8EazDShjg6l8kStWZRc/lW4b2TPADeIKfASZioh0Z6lOXGnybTIU5O CSfU1UOJIRqnyHofQyRGrtfsVyACf3DiQGWMJepuIk9bffU1+q+y5xB1kfaSYWIXqX3r PRkRYxeip1JZWlCHe0Nl4Fc7bcBoKGZbZFywU= 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=CzbaV6ZazYOsVgbJVQk82jsWMEC0sPQfH2VArxKlQVrIahvcB/IabtwJ4jS4858423 ivGkpoqYmqQI7xWrnq7ByuSG7XKakNma03jkUqGcj2+rQ7y7RB5tXaTZPN17bRc9MxtW Z7T/XJi/HkPvY3pWZGi3k1DT6iOnrhjIl4Dfs= 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 before run a shell script that would loop forever, sleep for 15s, then issue a "ps aux". That one did not show any excess of processes before the freeze. Would "ps gaxl" show processes that "ps aux" won't? If not, then it's not very likely that my freeze is caused by a full process table, would it? Unless a task creates them all in just a few seconds... Since the loop reporting the state before the freeze might not help, I'll wait for it to happen again. I've now opened several shells so that I can issue several commands with exec, hopefully. -- 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