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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:49:53 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fork: resource not available...
Message-ID:  <199510231949.OAA02168@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510231938.UAA00149@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Oct 23, 95 08:38:47 pm

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> 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 <news@iaehv> nice /usr/lib/news/send-nntp news.tue.nl:news.tue.nl
> >X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> >X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin>
> >X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/usr/lib/news>
> >X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=news>
> >X-Cron-Env: <USER=news>
> >
> >/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

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