Bug 73717

what kernel version are you using ?

Kernel Version is 2.4.9-34enterprise 
on a dual processor server with 4GB of RAM

any chance you're using a program that creates a lot of threads ?

I believe I am using a program that generates alot of threads !
There is one deamon which generates for each person that is logging in a new 
process. ie we have 1 ADVMAIL.SCKD process and it generates 1500 UAL.REMOTE 
(one for each person that logs into the E-Mail system)
Is there a solution ?

Is there any more INFO required ?

ok to get it clear: you get 1500 processes. Do these processes each have
threads? (I assume not, things would blow up before that ;)

orry for my ignorance

How do I get the information regarding threads that you want to know

are you using HP OpenMail ?

Yes I am using HP OPenMail

Any Update on this call ?

the only way we can go over 1200 openmail processes is with the current kernel
in rawhide ;( there is unfortionatly a 1200 (or thereabouts) hard limit in the
2.4.18 and previous kernels for processes linked against -lpthreads, openmail
does 1 per connection so there is a limit of 1200 openmail connections ;(

Thanks but I had already worked that out and HP OpenMail have recompiled their 
UAL.REMOTE process without lpthreads. I have have had between 1500- 1600 E-Mail 
users on the system at any one time. At certain times, most likely peak times, 
I get the above error (request_module (net-pf-10) ) what does it mean and how 
can I overcome it ?

(net-pf-10) is IPv6 (the next generation internet protocol with bigger addresses)

While our kernels support ipv6 as a loadable module, I really doubt you want
this in your setup. You can disable this message by putting
alias net-pf-10 off
in /etc/modules.conf

Thanks, I have made the change to the modules.conf file but how to I invoke it ?
Do I need to reboot ?

it's supposed to be immediate
if it's not then I'll check more

I have rebooted the server but I am still getting the same error. Below is a 
copy of my modules.conf
alias eth0 eepro100
alias eth1 eepro100
alias eth2 eepro100
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter2 cciss
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias net-pf-10 off  
Is this ok ?

Any other suggestions ?

well modprobe ipv6 will work ;(

(note of warning: if you do that and you have a firewall on the machine you also
must set up ipv6 based firewall rules probably)

Any other thoughts on stopping the
request module failure ?

Ok the fork failed is it trying to start a new process and failing because you
have the maximum processes allowed running. That is logged and occurs before it
can find out that ipv6 is off anyway.

You could up the max processes with sysctl I guess

I have ran sysctl -A and there are alot of entries . which one would I need to 
change ? and should I increase it by 10%, 50% , 100% ....

Just checking again on now to use the sysctl to max the processes

Please you please give me a hint on how to use sysctl to increase the number of 
Processes

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