From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 01:20:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA26272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 01:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (unicorn.uk1.vbc.net [204.137.194.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA26262 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 01:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gordon@localhost) by unicorn.uk1.vbc.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA05352; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:20:04 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:20:02 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson X-Sender: gordon@unicorn To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: No more processes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone shed some light on this? I get this error fairly offten from commands typed at the keyboard to cron scripts failing with 'can't fork' errors. The machine is running 2.1.0-RELEASE and inn1.4u4. (64MB of RAM, 128MB swap, system uses about 10% of swap accoring to 'top') Inn seems to work fine as rc.news is run by bash and it has a bunch if limit statements at the start but why does the system fall-over when trying to run simple cron jobs or even things from the keyboard like ps -gax | grep innxmit The kernel is compiled with maxusers set to 64. This ought to give it more processes that you can shake a stick at, or is there soemthing subtler going on like the process counter counting all processes for that particular user, even processes belonging to a different tty group? (eg. inn uses more that 40 processes as uid 'news' then I come allong & login as news to do some admin work and the default being 40 per user, it counts all the existing processes... ??? Any insight would be most appreciated! Gordon