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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to Fork
Date: 15 Aug 1995 06:55:18 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Superuser (root@buffnet.net) wrote:


: Im running INN under FreeBSD 2.0 

: I get alot of unable to fork errors - especially when the cleanup is running.

: The kernel (sysctl) shows 1044 max procs.

: Is there some way to tweek up the num of child processes or system or by 
: user processes?

: Im thinking it must be maxing on max processes owned by one user  or 
: something.

try limit/unlimit in the csh/tcsh or ulimit in sh/bash

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