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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: running out of processes? :-(
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 18:31:49 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk>

Are you using bash as your shell?  The `ulimit -u <somebignum>' command
in your $HOME/.bashrc file will put paid to these pesky warnings.  I
believe csh and tcsh have their own equivalents.  I have mine set to 400
and never see the fork messages now.
-- 
						Jordan