Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:14:39 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: gordon@drogon.net (Gordon Henderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: No more processes Message-ID: <199607251014.LAA00686@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960725091258.5323A-100000@unicorn> from "Gordon Henderson" at Jul 25, 96 09:20:02 am
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Gordon Henderson wrote / a ecrit:
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> Anyone shed some light on this? I get this error fairly offten
[...]
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> The kernel is compiled with maxusers set to 64. This ought to give it more
> processes that you can shake a stick at, or is there soemthing subtler
> going on like the process counter counting all processes for that
> particular user, even processes belonging to a different tty group? (eg.
> inn uses more that 40 processes as uid 'news' then I come allong & login
> as news to do some admin work and the default being 40 per user, it counts
> all the existing processes... ???
Try:
options "CHILD_MAX=256" #max processes per user (soft limit)
in your kernel configuration file. You may want to try a higher value
if you need it, but I'm not sure of the potential side effects if any.
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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