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From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Resource limits under 2.2-RELEASE
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:41:18 GMT
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I have a brand, shiny, new FreeBSD workstation. Unfortunately,
something odd happened. After I had lots of xterms open, I started
getting "fork failed: resource unavailable" messages. So I changed my
~/.zprofile to do "unlimit maxproc", which appeared to fix the problem.
However, I later discovered that if I telnetted back into my
workstation, I get the following error:
/home/hdm/.zprofile: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable [14]
Even though this error comes *after* the "unlimit maxproc" statement. I
am assuming that this is the resource that I am runnig out of, as I'm
certainly not running out of process table entries:
stress:hdm$ sysctl -a | grep maxproc
kern.maxproc: 532
kern.maxprocperuid: 531
stress:hdm$ ps ax | wc -l
72
stress:hdm$
Does anybody have any idea of what limit I need to tune, to fix this?
-Dom
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