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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Process Hell
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:32:19 -0800
Organization: University of Washington
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Brian Quirion wrote:
> 
> I recently had a bad experience installing 2.2SNAP
> I didnt like the unstableness of the system.
> I reinstalled
> 2.1 RELEASE and noticed this new problem
> 
> I can only run about 10 processes before getting
> No more processes
> or
> cannot form
> errors.
> 
> This never happenned on my original install.
> I have changed kern.maxproc and kern.maxprocperuid to no avail.
> 

kargl[202] limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        65536 kbytes
stacksize       8192 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       17408 kbytes
descriptors     64 
memorylocked    7569 kbytes
maxproc         100 

What is your maxproc value?  Try

kargl[203] limit maxprox 128

Sets your maximum number of processes to 128

-- 
Steve

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