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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.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lack of processes? Date: 7 May 1996 20:40:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4mocg3$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mj9kc$a2a@tatooine.vader.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chris@vader.org (Chris Dabrowski) wrote: > 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 Your default resource limits are unsufficient. Normally, one would adjust them in the login shell. For daemons, it's slightly more complicated. If this is a newer (newer than 2.1R) system, /bin/sh has a ``ulimit'' builtin where you can set ``ulimit -S -u <number>'' in order to bump it, e.g. in your /etc/rc.local shell script. (The value is inherited to the spawned children.) For an earlier system, you could either wrap your daemon startup with a csh wrapper, and use csh's ``limit'' builtin, or i think there used to be some knob that can be tuned in the system config file.... ah. <sys/syslimits.h> #define's CHILD_MAX to 40. It's protected by an #ifndef, so you can override it from your config file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)