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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!pubxfer.news.psi.net!usenet From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Running out of processes in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:24:50 -0500 Organization: The Watermark Group Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32767605.5DA3@watermarkgroup.com> References: <JOHN.96Oct24231814@burdell> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.246.139.33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) John Galbraith wrote: > > 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 It seems to me more like a memory problem. Try to increase your swap space. You can either add one more swap partition, or much easier, create a regular file and enable vnode swap on top of it. Make sure your psuedo device "vn" is configured into your kernel. For detail, look at man page for vnconfig(8). -lq