From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 17:39:50 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA03073 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 17:39:50 -0800 Received: from yucca.cs.odu.edu (root@yucca.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA03067 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:39:48 GMT Received: from galileo.cs.odu.edu (olson@galileo.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.14]) by yucca.cs.odu.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id UAA14851; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 20:36:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 20:37:35 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Olson To: Sean Kelly cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Can't fork!! In-Reply-To: <199412271647.AA228446871@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Dec 1994, Sean Kelly wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 11:47:51 -0500 > From: Sean Kelly > To: olson@cs.odu.edu > Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com > Subject: Re: Can't fork!! > > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Olson writes: > > Michael> I am going to edit /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h, up > Michael> CHILD_MAX from 40 to 100 processes, and build a new > Michael> kernel. > > Urm, where I come from, max num of processes is a function of the > MAXUSERS entry in your kernel config file. Up that, and you get a > larger proc table. Besides, doesn't the kernel rebuild take includes > from within the sys tree, not /usr/include? > > --k > I'm not running out of space in my process table. I can still run more processes as root or by logging in under a different user name. I tried uping the entry under /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h and it didn't help. (Probably because your right about all the includes being in the src/ tree. But I don't know what to change to fix this. (And no, limits under tcsh is not the problem. It still occurs after doing a limits -h) Still looking for any suggestions. Thanks, Mike "Why Not" is a perfectly good reason.