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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Cron "No more prcesses" spawning nntpsend
Date: 17 Mar 1995 01:53:49 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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>The question is,.... which process limit are we hitting?  The message
>is generated by cron, so I don't think that innd is directly involved.
>(I already increased the user process limit to 128 in the rc.news
>file.)  I have maxusers set to 64 which yields an NPROC value of 1104
>and I know there aren't 1100 processes.  

	We've been working the same issue (and haven't gotten an answer
yet) in which it seems that the NPROC value isn't really getting
used right. Also, creating lots of processes can panic your machine.

mjr.