From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 01:22:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13263 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from toplink1.toplink.net (toplink1.toplink.net [194.163.120.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13248 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ck@localhost) by toplink1.toplink.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA10349; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:22:28 +0100 From: Christian Kratzer Message-Id: <199603050922.KAA10349@toplink1.toplink.net> Subject: Re: Limti of processes per user To: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:22:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603050909.JAA11394@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> from "Neil Brendan Clark" at Mar 5, 96 09:08:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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!