Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:01:31 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot fork Message-ID: <19981214070131.32240@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:59:42PM %2B0000 References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:59:42PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > I'm getting variations on the cannot fork message when trying to
> > view man pages from an xterm. xman isn't very happy either. This is
> > 2.2.6-STABLE in case it matters.
>
> How many processes do you have running, and how many is the maximum
> (according to `limits'[1])? If there is a large difference I have no
> idea. Perhaps you need to rebuild your kernel to allow more processes;
> I have maxusers=64 (which gives 2k processes, I'm allowed 1k by
> login.conf) with no problems.
>
> [1] sysctl kern.maxproc may also help of course, but you may be allowed
> less than the system limit
Thanks Ben, it sounds like you're on the right track here even though I
understand ver little of what you've said. Could you translate some of
it into "do this" style?
I get that 'limits' is a command I can type, and it comes back with
maxprocesses-cur 64
What next?
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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