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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running out of processes in FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 29 Oct 1996 21:20:20 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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john@burdell (John Galbraith) wrote:
^^^^^^^ (Please, see your sysadmin to configure the newsreader.)
> 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.
limit maxproc (csh) or limit -u (sh) are your friends.
--
cheers, J"org
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