Am 04. Sep, 2006 schwätzte David so:
> Does anyone know of an accurate way to get the number of processes that a
> user is running? 'ps' doesnt seem up to the task.
>
> The reason I ask is because I was woken up at 3am the other day due to one of
> our oracle servers freaking out. Apparently, it had hit the soft limit on
> the number of processes it was allowed. ulimit -u shows 2048 (previously).
> ps -aux | grep oracle only shows about 150 or so, though. Changing the nproc
> soft limit to 4096 fixed the issue (done in /etc/security/limits.conf).
Could it be that they all died off?
ps should show all the processes.
Walk /proc/$numbers yourself and see if there are any that aren't coming
up in ps.
Does Oracle have a process limit in its config?
ciao,
der.hans
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