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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet1!root From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: can't fork? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.nntp Date: 15 Oct 1995 00:50:43 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <45plt3$4m7@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <bobfe.165.0DEA9EC0@ids.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet1.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7215 news.software.nntp:16509 Bob Fayne - IDS Tech Support (bobfe@ids.net) wrote: : I keep getting this error message from time to time: : paperboy innd: ME cant fork /usr/local/etc/in.nnrpd Resource temporarily unavailable : Can anyone tell me what this means? Am I running too many processes? I have : 128megs of memory, and TOP usually shows anywhere from 60-90 megs in use. : I set my syslogs to all debug level, and I'm not getting any more information : than that error message. : Which resource is unavailable? : Can I recompile my kernel to allow for more processes? (assuming that's the : problem) I hit the maxproc limit on my news server. There are params in syslimit.h - but there are more than 1 syslimit.h (maybe its syslimits.h with an s) which is what hung me up. I changed both for consistancy, but the one of import is the one below /usr/src. After recompiling the kernal (I set maxproc to 128 and max files you can have open to 128 as well) my troubles stopped.