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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc 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!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!daver!dlr From: dlr@daver.bungi.com (Dave Rand) Subject: Re: cannot fork - IAC error? Message-ID: <DH7uAp.A4n@daver.bungi.com> Organization: Association for the Prevention of Polar bears and Kangaroos References: <DH6rMo.144@daver.bungi.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:13:31 GMT Lines: 17 In article <DH6rMo.144@daver.bungi.com> dlr@daver.bungi.com (Dave Rand) writes: >I am getting period "cannot fork" messages from the news processes. > [deleted] > >So with regard to this "cannot fork" message - is it the dreaded >Idiot At Console (IAC) error? Or have I just set something up wrong? > It turns out that it *was* the dreaded IAC error. In param.h, MAXUPRC (Maximum number of processes per user) is set to CHILD_MAX. CHILD_MAX, in turn, is set to 40. Setting this to some appreciable fraction of MAXPROC should cure the problem... -- Dave Rand Internet: dlr@daver.bungi.com