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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:25:43 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot fork
Message-ID:  <199701220155.MAA11175@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <E0vmqWF-0000dU-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jan 21, 97 05:26:23 pm"

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Warner Losh stands accused of saying:
> 
> Any ideas on how I might track down this problem?  I'm rebuilding my
> kernel now with MAX_CHILDREN set to be 256 rather than whatever the
> default is.  We'll see if that is the problem.  Over time I keep
> bumping limits and I'm fine for a while, but after a while I start to
> hit the cannot fork messages again.

What does 'limit maxproc' say?  I usually raise it to 200 or so in
my .xsession; the default of 40 or so is very tight for heavy X work.

> Warner

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