From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 11:13:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27836 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27806 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:13:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00439; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:09:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:09:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: cpfreg cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: [Q] bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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