Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:57:52 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot fork Message-ID: <19981214125752.03927@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981213204136.A17472@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 08:41:36PM %2B0000 References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk> <19981214070131.32240@welearn.com.au> <19981213204136.A17472@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 08:41:36PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > Thanks Ben, it sounds like you're on the right track here even though
> > I understand ver little of what you've said. Could you translate some
> > of it into "do this" style?
> >
> > I get that 'limits' is a command I can type, and it comes back with
> > maxprocesses-cur 64
>
> What does
>
> $ sysctl kern.maxproc
>
> show? That's the system wide limit, which may be higher than your user
> limit. I'm guessing that while you're running X you could easily get 64
> processes. (`ps ax | wc -l' will tell you how many procs you have, near
> enough anyway.)
When I was supposed to be limited to 64 processes, I couldn't run more
than about 44 as shown with ps. Not a problem though. There must be a
few things going on that ps (as I'm using it) doesn't show.
> If kern.maxproc is a lot higher than 64, you can probably just alter
> some settings in /etc/login.conf to increase the per-user limits
> (following the instructions at the top of login.conf about rebuilding
> the database). To find out which class you are in, do `limits -U sue',
> or something:
>
> $ limits -U ben
> Resource limits for class staff:
>
> shows I'm in the `staff' class. You can change your class if needed
> using vipw, it's the fifth field along (which may well be blank, and can
> safely be left blank).
I was in default class. There's an xuser class but its 48 processes
seems a bit lean. As an experiment, I made another class:
sueclass:\
:maxproc-cur=100:\
:tc=default:
and did the "don't forget to" database thing like the file said, also
added myself to that class with vipw, then took a fresh login as my
humble self.
Now ps shows me 76 processes before I'm grounded, instead of 44.
That'll do fine, and I know how to change it and why :-)
> If kern.maxproc isn't much higher, rebuild your kernel,
> replacing the maxusers line in the kernel config file with
>
> maxusers 64
>
> or some such value. Reboot, check kern.maxproc and your limits, and see
> if things are working better.
Not necessary immediately, but that change is now ready for the
kernel rebuild in case I need to go much higher.
Thanks much for the full instructions!
I hope others who need this detail find it too.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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