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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@mpress.com>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: cannot fork, resource temporarily unavailable
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I run qmail 1.01 on my -current system with 32MBs.  I have a .qmail
file which says

| /var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/procmail

I often get error messages such as:

Jul 23 13:02:12 mpress qmail: 869688132.490708 delivery 40: deferral: preline:_fatal:_temporary_problem/

Jul 23 13:01:40 mpress qmail: 869688100.100646 delivery 37: deferral: Unable_to_fork._(#4.3.0)/     

And messages from procmail about cannot fork.

my kernel is compiled with

maxusers 20

Most of the time its just me and X logged in.  I'm running afterstep
and usually have 4 rxvt windows.

I don't get these errors in any other context, so I'm guessing that
something is limiting qmail or my account.  Any ideas?

-- 
Brian Litzinger
brian@mpress.com