From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 02:15:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA00924 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 02:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA00906 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 02:15:27 -0700 (PDT) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id LAA24049 ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:15:18 +0200 (METDST) Received: from garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (garfield) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:14:39 +0100 Received: from (af@localhost) by garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) id LAA00686 ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:14:39 +0100 (GMT-1) Message-Id: <199607251014.LAA00686@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: No more processes To: gordon@drogon.net (Gordon Henderson) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:14:39 +0100 (GMT-1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Gordon Henderson" at Jul 25, 96 09:20:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gordon Henderson wrote / a ecrit: > > > Anyone shed some light on this? I get this error fairly offten [...] > > 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_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]