From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 15 6:36:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from misty.apana.org.au (misty.apana.org.au [203.11.114.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F3615323 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 06:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurubonz@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (gurubonz@localhost) by misty.apana.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10019 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:36:46 +0800 X-Authentication-Warning: misty.apana.org.au: gurubonz owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:36:45 +0800 (WST) From: Tony Cooper X-Sender: gurubonz@misty.apana.org.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: fork Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone please tell me if there is a limit to the number of simultaneous processes that each user can run on a freeBSD system and a way to increase this number if there is? I recently modified a script which pings all 16 ports of our stallion card sequentially to doing it by running each ping process in the background. A similar script written to ping all 4 ports on a different freebsd box doesn't have the problem. The error I get is fork: Resource Temporarily unavailable. hope someone has a bright idea that may fix the problem TIA gb Would some one please stop this spinning ball, I wanna get off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message