Lion freezes as it can't fork new processes
Been having a problem with my Mac Pro for some time, so decided to monitor and see what the cause is:
I have been seeing a lot of this in kernel.log
Feb 15 02:25:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: proc: table is full
And Also this:
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_allocate_cluster - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: macx_swapon FAILED - 12
Feb 15 01:39:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
So, i ran a cron job every 10 minutes to try and find out if i have something that is continuoulsy forking new processes.
At the time of my latest crash I had over 700 processes like this:
14885 322 0 1:21AM ?? 0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er 502
99 of these:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
381 of these:
0 5549 5537 0 8:00PM ?? 0:05.51 /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/MacOS/ManagedClient -s
and so on.
1065 of these
0 5559 236 0 8:00PM ?? 0:00.70 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Parental Controls Broken?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)