From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 12:03:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA24781 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk (zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.148.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA24773 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:03:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr M P Searle Message-Id: <840.199610261902@zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Received: by zander.csv.warwick.ac.uk id UAA00840; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:02:27 +0100 (BST) Subject: String space limit? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:02:18 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been adding a lot of stuff to my X start up script, and I've strted getting 'cat: No such process' errors, followed by '/kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space'. The cat: errors are from a shell script called several times at startup and occasionally later. The script seems to work later on - I must be running out of some temporary resource, but my shell limits all seem OK and I've set maxusers 30 (I'm not sure exactly how many processes that is, but I've had over 100.) So what eactly am I running out of, and how can I get rid of the errors? Thanks, Michael.