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From: chris@vader.org (Chris Dabrowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Lack of processes?
Date: 5 May 1996 22:21:00 GMT
Organization: Vader
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Does anyone know what could be causing these error messages:
May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant spawn /news/bin/control/newgroup
for control/newgroup/17509 Resource temporarily unavailable
May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant fork /news/bin/control/newgroup
Resource temporarily unavailable
May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant spawn /news/bin/control/newgroup
for control/newgroup/17510 Resource temporarily unavailable
May 5 05:31:09 tatooine innd: ME cant fork /news/bin/control/newgroup
Resource temporarily unavailable
I'm running FreeBSD-2.1 STABLE with MAXUSERS (in the kernel) set to 64. I
have tried setting it other values all to no avail. Is there any way of
increasing the number of processes?
I use my machine to run X, inn, named, nfs (client & server), apache,
samba and sendmail (from inetd) so the number of processes can get quite
large (about 70), but when the above occurred I wasn't even running X.
Any advice would be appreciated. I've had a look as some man pages (sysctl)
and the FAQ and Handbook but it hasn't helped. The Handbook states that
the number of processes is equal to 20 + (16 * MAXUSERS) or in my case 1044
which should be more than enough.
Spec:
P100
48 Mb RAM
Adaptec 2940 PCI
64 Mb Swap (32 Mb partition & 32 Mb file)
Cheers,
Chris
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Chris Dabrowski
chris@vader.org