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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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