Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:37:15 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: brian@mpress.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot fork, resource temporarily unavailable Message-ID: <199707232137.OAA16798@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19970723132014.47636@mpress.com> References: <19970723132014.47636@mpress.com>
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In article <19970723132014.47636@mpress.com>, Brian Litzinger <brian@mpress.com> wrote: > > I often get error messages such as: > > Jul 23 13:02:12 mpress qmail: 869688132.490708 delivery 40: deferral: preline:_fatal:_temporary_problem/ > > Jul 23 13:01:40 mpress qmail: 869688100.100646 delivery 37: deferral: Unable_to_fork._(#4.3.0)/ > > And messages from procmail about cannot fork. > > my kernel is compiled with > > maxusers 20 > > Most of the time its just me and X logged in. I'm running afterstep > and usually have 4 rxvt windows. > > I don't get these errors in any other context, so I'm guessing that > something is limiting qmail or my account. Any ideas? man login.conf :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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