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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Out of Processes
Date: 1 Jul 1996 16:47:09 GMT
Organization: APL/UW
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Message-ID: <4r8ved$85i@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <31D06A89.41C67EA6@nwlink.com> <31D4048A.23C4@www.play-hookey.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote in article <31D4048A.23C4@www.play-hookey.com> :
>
>Florida Boy wrote:
>>
>> FreeBSD 2.1.release
>> 16 MB of physical RAM
>> 128 MB of swamp
>> 1 GB drive
>>
>> After about 32-40 processes, my machine claims "no more processes" for
>> each user. I've adjusted maxusers in the kernel conf file to 64, so I
>> thought I had circumvented this. Any suggestions or helpful hints where
>> else to look?
>
>Did you recompile the kernel after setting this parameter?
>
>Ken
>
No. He needs to look at his per-shell process limits.
kargl[179] limit
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize 65536 kbytes
stacksize 8192 kbytes
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse 24576 kbytes
descriptors 64
memorylocked 10193 kbytes
maxproc 100
The last one is the important. Oh yeash, this is under a tcsh.
Steve
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