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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:22:28 +0100 (MET)
From:      Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net>
To:        nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limti of processes per user
Message-ID:  <199603050922.KAA10349@toplink1.toplink.net>
In-Reply-To: <199603050909.JAA11394@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> from "Neil Brendan Clark" at Mar 5, 96 09:08:57 am

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Hi

> 
> Christian Kratzer writes:
> >
> >is there a hardcoded limit on the number of simultaneous processes
> >or shells for a user.  I often run into "cannot fork" errors when I 
> >work with several xterms on multiple desktops on FreeBSD 2.0r and 2.1r.
> 
> I found a similar problem - if you are using csh or tcsh, it's easy to
> resolve. It seems that the default maximum number of processes allowed
> by csh is 40 - type "limit" and see the csh man page for more details.
> Something along the lines of "limit maxproc 100" in your or the system wide
> .cshrc should solve your woes.

thanks! "set limitmaxproc 100" did the trick.

Greetings
Christian

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