Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:25:43 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot fork Message-ID: <199701220155.MAA11175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0vmqWF-0000dU-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jan 21, 97 05:26:23 pm"
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > Any ideas on how I might track down this problem? I'm rebuilding my > kernel now with MAX_CHILDREN set to be 256 rather than whatever the > default is. We'll see if that is the problem. Over time I keep > bumping limits and I'm fine for a while, but after a while I start to > hit the cannot fork messages again. What does 'limit maxproc' say? I usually raise it to 200 or so in my .xsession; the default of 40 or so is very tight for heavy X work. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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