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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to Fork
Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:42:49 +0200
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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.

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

Yup, simply type `limit' in your [t]csh, and you'll see the default
number of limits.

When changing this, keep in mind that it will only affect the current
shell and all its children.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)