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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.Arizona.EDU!news.arizona.edu!john From: john@burdell (John Galbraith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Running out of processes in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 25 Oct 1996 06:18:14 GMT Organization: The University of Arizona Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JOHN.96Oct24231814@burdell> NNTP-Posting-Host: burdell.ece.arizona.edu I am having trouble with the process table filling up, it seems. I get messages like "cannot fork()", "vfork() failed", and stuff like that after I have been running for a while. I generally run X, but I am the only user of the machine. When I first started running into this, I cranked "maxusers" up to 25 (which would seem like plenty of entries to me, isn't that something like 25*16 = 400 processes?) but it doesn't seem to have any effect. My problem must be somewhere else. ps doesn't show any zombies or weird stuff filling up the process table. In fact, it only lists about 45 entries! Is this a problem that has been encountered by anybody else? John