Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264450AbUAJCYO (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:24:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264526AbUAJCYO (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:24:14 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:13230 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264450AbUAJCYN (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:24:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:24:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Peng Yong Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: system resource limit in kernel 2.6 Message-Id: <20040109182450.462bc537.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040110095333.0765.PPYY@bentium.com> References: <20040110095333.0765.PPYY@bentium.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1444 Lines: 28 Peng Yong wrote: > > > We upgrade one of our production http server, runing apache 1.3.29, to > kernel 2.6. some time the main process of apache exit and here is the > error log: > > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > [Sat Jan 10 08:48:44 2004] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534 > > > how can i tuning the kernel and remove the system resource limit? > Well the question is: why did behaviour change relative to 2.4? The kernel is saying that uid 65534 has exceeded its RLIMIT_NPROC threshold. How may processes is user 65534 actually running, and how much memory does the machine have? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/