Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:09:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: cpfreg <cpfreg@unix4cc.nppi.edu.tw> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [Q] bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215110923.292T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.971211155701.223C-100000@unix4cc.nppi.edu.tw>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, cpfreg wrote: > I am using FreeBSD2.2-970625-RELENG. In /etc/rc.local I use > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm& to start the XWindows and AfterStep as my > XWin manager. I start 9 rxvt after I login. Even with 64M RAM > sometimes (not all the time) I get this kind of error message: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > Does anyone has any idea what is going on? > You're running into the login.conf limits, probably. Try releasing the per-shell limits for bash (the csh command is `ulimit') or bump the limits in /etc/login.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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