Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:20:02 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: No more processes Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960725091258.5323A-100000@unicorn>
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Anyone shed some light on this? I get this error fairly offten from commands typed at the keyboard to cron scripts failing with 'can't fork' errors. The machine is running 2.1.0-RELEASE and inn1.4u4. (64MB of RAM, 128MB swap, system uses about 10% of swap accoring to 'top') Inn seems to work fine as rc.news is run by bash and it has a bunch if limit statements at the start but why does the system fall-over when trying to run simple cron jobs or even things from the keyboard like ps -gax | grep innxmit The kernel is compiled with maxusers set to 64. This ought to give it more processes that you can shake a stick at, or is there soemthing subtler going on like the process counter counting all processes for that particular user, even processes belonging to a different tty group? (eg. inn uses more that 40 processes as uid 'news' then I come allong & login as news to do some admin work and the default being 40 per user, it counts all the existing processes... ??? Any insight would be most appreciated! Gordon
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