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From: Michael Jamet <mjamet@panix.com>
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Subject: Running into max process limit
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I have written a program which forks a bunch of children upto about 100.
Before it gets nearly that far, the forks fail.  Changing maxusers had no
effect (maxusers=100).  I have plenty of memory, but no change has any
effect.  Suggestions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Michael