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To: davidn@blaze.net.au
Subject: Re: Cannot fork 
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:22:43 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970122152601.3427A-100000@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> David Nugent writes:
: As others have also said, this is probably due to
: /etc/login.conf.

But I don't have a login.conf.  Maybe I should :-)

My maxproc is 40.  I don't think I had that many processes going, but
building a port does take quite a bit of processes, come to think of
it.  I'll increase my maxproc to 500 or so in /etc/login.conf.

Warner