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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.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: running out of processes? :-( Date: 10 Nov 1995 19:39:14 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4809p2$es4@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <47vjal$coa@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <47vjal$coa@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, ip@mcc.ac.uk says... >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. You need to use the csh command "limit maxproc". If you just type "limit", you will notice that maxproc is set to 40. Doing a "unlimit maxproc" will move the limit to the system maximum. Tom