Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:28:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Danny Dulai <nirva@ns1.zynet.com> To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (steve farrell) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cannot fork with freebsd-stable Message-ID: <199606111528.JAA04710@ns1.zynet.com> In-Reply-To: <31BD3AEC.41C67EA6@midway.uchicago.edu> from "steve farrell" at Jun 11, 96 09:23:22 am
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> > i recently installed freebsd-2.1R, and since supped -stable, compiled a > new kernel and set of libraries. since then i've been having the > following problem: i get an error that i cannot fork a new process > (actually, as root i usually can, but not always -- i guess this is > supposed to protect against denial of service attacks...anyway....). i > thought at first that this was due to the fact that the libraries had > changed on a live system, so i baked a new kernel (i set the max users > up to 40 in case the process table was running out?) and rebooted. 24 > hours later i'm having the same problem! help please, i don't want ot > have to reboot every day! > > verbatim: > > zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable [92] > > (though, the number 92, i'm quite sure, is different from yesterday. i > think it was 250 or something yesterday...) > > (also, there are nowhere near 20 + 16 * 40 processes running right now > -- actually there are 62 -- speaking of which, that seems to be my new > hard limit =( ....until i reboot, at least.) > [ kernel config file removed ] > > thanks! > > --steve farrell (who otherwise thinks freebsd is pretty damn nice...) > I'm also having the same problem, -stable seems to have messed up my machines quite badly, not only do i run out of processes a lot, but ram too. i have 128M swap and 64 megs ram, and it used to work great on -release, it freaks under -stable. I've converted two machines back to -release, gonna convert this last one to -current probably if i dont find an answer for these -stable problems... has any expereinced this? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danny Dulai Feet. Pumice. Lotion. http://www.ishiboo.com/~nirva nirva@ishiboo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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