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From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: Re: No more process?
Organization: SeeWare Software
Message-ID: <DEztxL.2ts@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
References: <43901l$l1b@agate.berkeley.edu> <439usv$itv@fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:17:45 GMT
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Thomas Graichen (graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: C.Y. Chiu (chiuc@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: : Hi:

: : I get "no more process" after I open a couple if windows under 
: : FreeBSD2.0.5R.  I guess it has something to do with the way the kernel is 
: : compiled? But I can't find what the right command to add in the kernel 
: : configuration file.  If it's not the kernel, what should I do so that I 
: : can run more process simultaneously? Thanks for the help!

: either for you locally in a shell try limit/unlimit in the csh/tcsh or
: ulimit in bash (and maybe sh) - the other way would be to look into the
: /sys/i386/conf/LINT file:

Just a note.  If you are running X under xdm (as I do) then you will need
to set this ulimit stuff up in the Xsession script which is executed at
login. It won't really help to set it from an xterm because in any case
the grandparent process will be Xsession and it will have the low limit.
(which I think is 40 by the way - set by the shell).

/mark

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