Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:59:42 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cannot fork Message-ID: <19981213145942.D10841@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au> References: <19981213211314.57505@welearn.com.au>
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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 -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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