Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:40:54 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: june@adn.edu.ph Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cannot fork Message-ID: <199609161340.NAA19997@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960916152239.10390C-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph> (june@adn.edu.ph)
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>>>>> "Francis Percival C Favoreal" <june@adn.edu.ph> writes: > What happens if a process cannot fork? What's the cause of this? How > can this be fix? The cause is either that the process table is full and there's no room for any more processes, or that the per-user limit is reached and there's no room for one user ID to have any more processes. > I have a special shell /bin/chat for a particular user. After 20 > people logged in using this special account, I see the message > below: It's gotta be the per-user limit, then. For this special account, you want to run the csh command unlimit maxproc to allow that user ID to run as many processes as it wants (up to the system limit). -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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