Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 09:08:57 +0000 From: Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> To: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limti of processes per user Message-ID: <199603050909.JAA11394@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 08:35:27 %2B0100." <199603050735.IAA07584@toplink1.toplink.net>
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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. >Do I have to recompile the kernel to raise the limit or is there some >other way (perhaps on a per user basis) ? The above should work, but if you have a heavily loaded system you may still run into problems. In this case, increase the value of "maxusers" in the kernel config file and you'll be sorted. Check out the FreeBSD handbook to see the exact effect this has on the number of allowed processes (I can't remember the formula). -------- Neil Clark Transparent Telepresence Group http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/
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