Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:12:43 +0500 From: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) To: joe@ns.via.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to fork???? Message-ID: <9512111412.AA02395.gonzo@vmicls.com>
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> > > I have a 100MHZ pentium that I use as a web and FTP server. Recently > we've been seeing Apache complaining about "can't spawn process". After > making it print out errno from the failing fork(), we're getting EAGAIN. > > I make a kernel with maxusers == 50 thinking that this would solve my problem. > but it didn't. > > Normally the system runs with 65-70 processes. When it gets to 99 or 100 it > refuses to fork any more. > > Where is this limit set? How can I increase it? What other resources can I > tweak for a heavily loaded machine? > > Thanks, > > Joe > Joe, I had a similar problem. Try adding these lines to you kernel config file: maxusers 64 options "CHILD_MAX=256" options "OPEN_MAX=256" By doing this I was able to open more than 20 or so xterms.... Maybe this will help you.
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