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 -- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.net Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7452 87174 Fax: +49 7452 87175 FreeBSD spoken here!
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