Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Litzinger <brian@mpress.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot fork, resource temporarily unavailable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970724083807.1278D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970723132014.47636@mpress.com>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Brian Litzinger wrote: > I run qmail 1.01 on my -current system with 32MBs. I have a .qmail > file which says > > | /var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/procmail > > I often get error messages such as: > > Jul 23 13:01:40 mpress qmail: 869688100.100646 delivery 37: deferral: > Unable_to_fork._(#4.3.0)/ > > And messages from procmail about cannot fork. > I don't get these errors in any other context, so I'm guessing that > something is limiting qmail or my account. Any ideas? You might check your login.conf and make sure you have the appropriate users have enough processes available. You might try sending mail to yourself and watch 'top' and make sure you don't have any runaway processes either. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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