Multiple Processes

[Mike Carr]

Occasionally, we have a problem in which several processes of sqr, cgi-bin will spawn. I have also noticed that netscape enterprise server will grow in size until it crashes, due to lack of memory. Attached I have views of top which were taken when this was observed. Has anyone else seen this?

[Bill Hassell]

If you have not adjusted your kernel parameters for a large server, this is expected. The maximum size allowed for a process is about 67 megs so change the keernel parameter maxdsiz to 500 or perhaps 900 megs. You may need to bump nfiles and nproc too as the server load increases.