Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:07:25 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Jamet <mjamet@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable ? - The answer Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.971211170450.14869A-100000@panix2.panix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.971211155701.223C-100000@unix4cc.nppi.edu.tw>
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I just had the same problem earlier this week. Please see my question and Doug White's answer below. Oh and thank you Doug. Michael On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, cpfreg wrote: > I am using FreeBSD2.2-970625-RELENG. In /etc/rc.local I use > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm& to start the XWindows and AfterStep as my > XWin manager. I start 9 rxvt after I login. Even with 64M RAM > sometimes (not all the time) I get this kind of error message: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > Does anyone has any idea what is going on? > > >From dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu Thu Dec 11 17:04:23 1997 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:42:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Jamet <mjamet@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running into max process limit On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Michael Jamet wrote: > > I have written a program which forks a bunch of children upto about 100. > Before it gets nearly that far, the forks fail. Changing maxusers had no > effect (maxusers=100). I have plenty of memory, but no change has any > effect. Suggestions? Did you try `ulimit' before running your program to release the per-shell limits? Did you check /etc/login.conf? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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