From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 13 12:26:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06131 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from news@netspace.net.au) Received: from d1o1.telia.com (root@d1o1.telia.com [195.67.240.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15805 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:25:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from doorway.home.lan (t4o1p45.telia.com [195.67.240.225]) by d1o1.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10864 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:25:23 +0100 (CET) Received: (from news@localhost) by doorway.home.lan (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA02212 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:47:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from news) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:47:57 +0100 (CET) From: News Subsystem Message-Id: <199812131947.UAA02212@doorway.home.lan> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Newsgroups: freebsd.questions Path: usenet From: "Mark Hannon" Subject: Re: cannot fork X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: usenet@home.lan (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: putte.home.lan Organization: Private News Host Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 19:46:44 GMT Ben Smithurst wrote in message <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>... >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 I've had best luck by adding the line unlimit to the system chs.chsrc file. The default max number of processes by tcsh seems to be around 40 per user which isn't hard to do if you run x. Cheers/Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message