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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!jeeves.usfca.edu!news From: kornel <kornel@netjet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: cant fork Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:08:25 -0700 Organization: NetJet, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <326BF459.1F58@netjet.com> Reply-To: kornel@netjet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rome.netjet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) CC: kornel@netjet.com Hi, I was wondering if anyone ran into the problem that our shop has been struggling with for a while: We get a 'can't fork new process: Temporarily out of resources' error from the netscape server on a BSDi box. I have raised the maxusers (in the kernel) to 256 from 20 and hoped the problem would go away. It appeared for a while that it did go away but then it started reoccuring. Does anybody know to what number I should set the maxusers variable in the kernel to get get rid of this 'cant fork' problem. Also, is there any other kernel setting I should be aware of that might adjust resources such that this problem would go away? All help would be greatly appriciated. Kornel -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Kornel Csaszar Email: kornel@netjet.com Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Fax: 415-547-7735 NetJet Communications Phone: 415-547-7730 Web Publisher to the World http://www.netjet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------