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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recompile with maxusers 100 has no effect?  Can't run more then 38 processes?
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 17:18:24 -0800
Organization: Applied Physics Lab
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Zenin wrote:
> 
> In trying to recompile 2.1.7 the maxusers options seems to have no
> effect.  I've set it to 100 and still if I run more then 38
> processes I get the error:
>         "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"
> 
> Might I be hitting some silly max process per user quota? -Almost
> all 38 are owned by one user, me.  If so, where can I adjust it or
> turn it off?

kargl[279] limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        65536 kbytes
stacksize       8192 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       24576 kbytes
descriptors     64 
memorylocked    10106 kbytes
maxproc         100 

Yes, you're hitting a shell imposed limit.  The above is for tcsh.
Bash probably has some type of limit.  You might try reading the
man page or info file.

-- 
Steve

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