From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 06:35:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA04870 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 06:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plum.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA04749 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 06:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by plum.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA21603 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:25:42 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199604221325.OAA21603@plum.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: fvwm95 port and process limits To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:25:38 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do, Up until a couple of days ago I was a happy ctwm user. But after seeing the messages in some of the freebsd- lists about the fvwm95 port I thought I'd try it out. It's quite nice, and certainly manages to confuse some of the people around the office. But it seems to be a bit of a process hog. With ctwm, I had a kernel compiled with maxusers set to 20 and could quite happily have 8 xterms running, a few Netscape windows and quite often a copy of XEmacs. And all the usual Unix background tasks as well. On top of that I've got a solitary CERN httpd, and one doing proxy cache for me as well. On switching to fvwm95, I started getting "error: cannot fork()" messages from various programs, so recompiled a kernel with maxusers set to 40. And I still get these errors fairly frequently. Now obviously I can just bump this figure up another 20 or so, but I'd like to know if (a) anyone using fvwm95 with FreeBSD has noticed this (b) what's a 'good' figure for maxusers (the handbook says '4' should be enough for anyone, but that doesn't gel with my experience) and (c) are there any tools out there (other than playing with ps) which could report something along the lines of 'x' processes (of a maximum 'y') running Highwater mark since last reboot: 'z' N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it. ]ENTP