From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 15:19:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA28990 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:19:33 -0700 Received: from jupiter.avsi.com (jupiter.avsi.com [199.100.190.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA28981 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:19:29 -0700 Received: from avsi.com (jupiter.avsi.com [199.100.190.6]) by jupiter.avsi.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA08729 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:20:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199504262220.SAA08729@jupiter.avsi.com> From: Allyn Hardyck To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: cannot fork; no more processes Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:20:40 -0400 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I seem to be getting these errors often, and unexpectedly, given what's going on on my system (i.e. not much at the moment other than me, incoming mail and about a dozen xterms on the screen.) Will increasing maxusers in the kernel help? In /sys/conf/param.c NPROC is (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS), and I have maxusers defined as 10 in my kernel. I don't have 180 processes going when I get these errors. Or is it something more intractable? Is it swap space? I thought I had enough of that, I don't ever seem to be close to running out.... Thanks again for any advice, and for your responses in the past. I usually try checking the questions archive first; but it hasn't been updated since September. Will there be another update at some point? Allyn Hardyck