From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 23 12:51:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA22051 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:51:19 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22043 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:51:15 -0700 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id OAA02168; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:49:54 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199510231949.OAA02168@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: fork: resource not available... To: guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:49:53 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510231938.UAA00149@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Oct 23, 95 08:38:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Can someone shed a light on this one?: > > Cron Daemon writes: > > >From daemon Mon Oct 23 18:00:37 1995 > >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 19:00:03 +0100 > >Message-Id: <199510231800.TAA17944@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> > >From: root@IAEhv.nl (Cron Daemon) > >To: news > >Subject: Cron nice /usr/lib/news/send-nntp news.tue.nl:news.tue.nl > >X-Cron-Env: > >X-Cron-Env: > >X-Cron-Env: > >X-Cron-Env: > >X-Cron-Env: > > > >/usr/lib/news/send-nntp: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > >/usr/lib/news/send-nntp: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable You're at your process limit. Type "limit" at a csh prompt to find your default limit. Probably 40. Entirely too small for a busy news server. I generally build news kernels sorta big: maxusers 128 options "CHILD_MAX=256" options "OPEN_MAX=256" #options "NMBCLUSTERS=512" etc. but sometimes you gotta up those numbers. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847