From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 04:51:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA13283 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 04:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tatooine.vader.org (tatooine.vader.org [194.159.100.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA13277 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 04:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by tatooine.vader.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00380 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 May 1996 12:51:35 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Dabrowski Message-Id: <199605051151.MAA00380@tatooine.vader.org> Subject: Processes To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:51:34 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: chris@vader.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone know what could be causing these error messages: May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant spawn /news/bin/control/newgroup for control/newgroup/17509 Resource temporarily unavailable May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant fork /news/bin/control/newgroup Resource temporarily unavailable May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant spawn /news/bin/control/newgroup for control/newgroup/17510 Resource temporarily unavailable May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant fork /news/bin/control/newgroup Resource temporarily unavailable I'm running FreeBSD-2.1 STABLE with MAXUSERS (in the kernel) set to 64. I have tried setting it other values all to no avail. Is there any way of increasing the number of processes? I use my machine to run X, inn, named, nfs (client & server), apache, samba and sendmail (from inetd) so the number of processes can get quite large (about 70), but when the above occurred I wasn't even running X. Any advice would be appreciated. I've had a look as some man pages (sysctl) and the FAQ and Handbook but it hasn't helped. The Handbook states that the number of processes is equal to 20 + (16 * MAXUSERS) or in my case 1044 which should be more than enough. Spec: P100 48 Mb RAM Adaptec 2940 PCI 64 Mb Swap (32 Mb partition & 32 Mb file) Cheers, Chris -- Chris Dabrowski chris@vader.org