Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:47:57 +0100 (CET) From: News Subsystem <news@netspace.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <199812131947.UAA02212@doorway.home.lan>
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From: "Mark Hannon" <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com>
Subject: Re: cannot fork
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References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 19:46:44 GMT
Ben Smithurst wrote in message
<19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>...
>Sue Blake wrote:
>
>> I'm getting variations on the cannot fork message when trying to
>> view man pages from an xterm. xman isn't very happy either. This is
>> 2.2.6-STABLE in case it matters.
>
>How many processes do you have running, and how many is the maximum
>(according to `limits'[1])? If there is a large difference I have no
I've had best luck by adding the line
unlimit
to the system chs.chsrc file. The default max number of processes by tcsh
seems to be around 40 per user which isn't hard to do if you run x.
Cheers/Mark
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