Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:00:57 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@jake.lodgenet.com> To: Rob Snow <rsnow@legend.txdirect.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man error: cannot fork() ? Message-ID: <199507101400.JAA24969@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 1995 17:24:57 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950707172028.10788A-100000@oasis>
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> > Over the last couple of days I've seen this a couple of times and now I > think it wasn't just a one time thing. > > rsnow@oasis% man sendmail ; or anything else > groff:fatal error: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > here is the ouput from the following: > $ man sendmail >error_file 2>&1 > $ cat error_file > > Cannot fork > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 512 > No manual entry for sendmail I'd say you're out of processes. You might try $ ps auxxww |wc -l (if there's enough processes for that to run.) I've got the following two lines in my kernel config file to let me be a resource pig. options "CHILD_MAX=128" options "OPEN_MAX=128" It looks like you might be able to do the same with sysctl, but I haven't tried that. > > what makes that happen? > > ps. 205R, X, fvwm, screen > > --- > Rob Snow > rsnow@txdirect.net > > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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