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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!ip From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: running out of processes? :-( Date: 10 Nov 1995 13:16:05 GMT Organization: Manchester Computing Centre Lines: 23 Message-ID: <47vjal$coa@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.mcc.ac.uk So far I've been _very_ pleased with the 2.1 snapshots, all my problems have been due to me. I've finally ditched my ancient Sun! Alas, I think I'm stuck. I habitually have half-a-dozen xloads, clock, xeyes, and a variable number of xterms onto the various machines I babysit for a living. And I'm pretty sure I'm running out of processes, since I'm getting fork() failures with "resource temporarily unavailable". I've bumped the maxusers in the config, as I would customarily do with a SunOS kernel rebuild, but to no effect. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I need to tweak to give me more processes? One perhaps vital item of information is that I'm starting all this stuff up with xdm. Much thanks in anticipation. And "BSD forever!". :-) Ian. -- Network Unit, Computer Centre, University of Manchester, England, Europe? Mail: ip@mcc.ac.uk || ip@clover.u-net.com || 100332,173 || ...!uknet!cns!ip Web: http://jumper.mcc.ac.uk/~ip/ || Phone: +44|0-161-275-6006 What do you want? Information. You won't get it.