On 19May2008 18:04, mark <markkicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > On 19May2008 10:36, mark <markkicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > | In /var/log/messages this is the only weird message | > | May 19 10:32:16 XXX kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies. | > Are you running a web server? It may be forking like mad trying to | > service these requests... | | Yes, I am running a web server nginx with 4 worker process. It is | serving only static files and like 70-100 requests/second. The CPU | load is really low.. I even rebooted the machine, load average is low | | uptime | 18:03:34 up 7:44, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.24 Fine. | > | have only 425 processes running | > | ps aux | wc -l | > | 425 | > Does "ps axf" tell you anything useful/unusual? I find it more helpful | > than "aux" because it shows the parent/child tree. | no, there is nothing unusual! | ps axf | wc -l | 426 Sorry, I meant without the "| wc -l"; actually to eyeball the whole listing as a tree looking for weirdness. Though if 425 is normal for you, probably this will not reveal anything. | > Hmm, another thought. See what ulimit says about your process limit; | > maybe F9 have some default limits that F8 did not. | I increased open files in F8 to 32768, that is preserved here in F9 | | How do I check my process limit? this is ulimit -a output [...] | max user processes (-u) 1024 Well, that seems to be more than 425. Anyone else got any ideas? Just for completeness, to eliminate the rror message being a lie, can you reproduce the fork failure using strace, eg: strace -f -e trace=process 2>strace.out some-script-that-will-fail.sh and verify from the "strace.out" file that in fact it is fork() that fails. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ People who write "obtuse" to mean a mixture of "obscure" and "abstruse" are displaying their own obtuseness. - Eric Minch <minch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list