From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 13 12:02:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04166 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04083 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id HAA08363; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:01:35 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19981214070131.32240@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:01:31 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot fork References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:59:42PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:59:42PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Sue Blake wrote: > > > I'm getting variations on the cannot fork message when trying to > > view man pages from an xterm. xman isn't very happy either. This is > > 2.2.6-STABLE in case it matters. > > How many processes do you have running, and how many is the maximum > (according to `limits'[1])? If there is a large difference I have no > idea. Perhaps you need to rebuild your kernel to allow more processes; > I have maxusers=64 (which gives 2k processes, I'm allowed 1k by > login.conf) with no problems. > > [1] sysctl kern.maxproc may also help of course, but you may be allowed > less than the system limit Thanks Ben, it sounds like you're on the right track here even though I understand ver little of what you've said. Could you translate some of it into "do this" style? I get that 'limits' is a command I can type, and it comes back with maxprocesses-cur 64 What next? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message