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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT - you'll find the various parameters
described in more detail there.  In particular, see CHILD_MAX.

					Jordan

> 
> I have a 100MHZ pentium that I use as a web and FTP server. Recently
> we've been seeing Apache complaining about "can't spawn process". After
> making it print out errno from the failing fork(), we're getting EAGAIN.
> 
> I make a kernel with maxusers == 50 thinking that this would solve my problem