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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!gnome.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Chris Stenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot fork ... system command exited with status 512 ? Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:48:35 GMT Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 30 Sender: usenet@gnome.co.uk (Charlie Root) Message-ID: <DM578z.17q@gnome.co.uk> References: <31116649.41C67EA6@telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hawk.gnome.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gnome.intecc.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Wayne Farmer (wayne@telstra.net) wrote: : Is the error below a kernel config type problem ? : : man tar : Formatting page, please wait...Cannot fork : Error executing formatting or display command. : system command exited with status 512 : Failed. : : I have re-compiled the kernel with more ptys as I tend to have windows : open to all the machines I manage and I ran out. : : I have 69 processes (mostly xterms) running right now running on a 16Mb : 486/66 - no problems. When I had this I just added the following options in the kernel config file and it went away. options "CHILD_MAX=256" options "OPEN_MAX=256" Chris