Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 16:36:33 -0700 From: Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com> To: "Todd \"Taco\" Hansen" <taco@mad.scientist.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wierd problem with forking. Message-ID: <199710092336.QAA17736@ichips.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 16:28:25 PDT." <343D6899.3F54BC7E@mad.scientist.com>
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In message <343D6899.3F54BC7E@mad.scientist.com> you write: > Each user is only allowed to have so many processes running at a time. > This is just an idea but if you fork bomb your computer you will see it > happen. :) Well the thing that kills me I have only 5 bash shells, X windows, PPP and netscape running. Surely there are enough processes for doing just that in the GENERIC kernel. And if I quit Netscape, applications can fork again. But it doesn't explain why a program I wrote that forks works when applications like man are failing. (unless they are forking more times than my program does) srihelp
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