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From: Zenin <zenin@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Recompile with maxusers 100 has no effect?  Can't run more then 38 processes?
Date: 5 Mar 1997 00:26:59 GMT
Organization: Rocky Horror, Barely Legal (Berkeley, CA)
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In trying to recompile 2.1.7 the maxusers options seems to have no effect.
I've set it to 100 and still if I run more then 38 processes I get the error:
	"bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

Might I be hitting some silly max process per user quota? -Almost all 38 are
owned by one user, me.  If so, where can I adjust it or turn it off?

If it helps, here is a copy of my kernal config file:

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#
# THRUSH kernal
#

machine		"i386"
#cpu		"I386_CPU"
#cpu		"I486_CPU"
cpu		"I586_CPU"
ident		THRUSH
maxusers	100

#options		MATH_EMULATE		#Support for x87 emulation
options		INET			#InterNETworking
options		FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options		NFS			#Network Filesystem
#options		MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
options		"CD9660"		#ISO 9660 Filesystem
options		PROCFS			#Process filesystem
options		"COMPAT_43"		#Compatible with BSD 4.3
options		"SCSI_DELAY=15"		#Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
options		BOUNCE_BUFFERS		#include support for DMA bounce buffers
options		UCONSOLE		#Allow users to grab the console

options		USERCONFIG              #boot -c editor
options		VISUAL_USERCONFIG       #visual boot -c editor

options		SYSVSHM
options		SYSVSEM
options		SYSVMSG

config		kernel	root on wd0 

controller	isa0
controller	eisa0
controller	pci0

controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive 0
disk		fd1	at fdc0 drive 1
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive 2

controller	wdc0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk		wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
disk		wd1	at wdc0 drive 1

controller	wdc1	at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
disk		wd2	at wdc1 drive 0
disk		wd3	at wdc1 drive 1

options         ATAPI   #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
device          wcd0    #IDE CD-ROM
device          wcd1

controller	ncr0
controller	ahb0
controller	ahc0

#controller	bt0	at isa? port "IO_BT0" bio irq ? vector bt_isa_intr
#controller	uha0	at isa? port "IO_UHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector uhaintr
#controller	aha0	at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector ahaintr
#controller	aic0    at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector aicintr
#controller	nca0	at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 vector ncaintr
#controller	nca1	at isa? port 0x350 bio irq 5 vector ncaintr
#controller	sea0	at isa? bio irq 5 iomem 0xc8000 iosiz 0x2000 vector seaintr

controller	scbus0

device		sd0

device		st0

device		cd0	#Only need one of these, the code dynamically grows

#device		wt0	at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 vector wtintr
#device		mcd0	at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 10 vector mcdintr

#controller	matcd0	at isa? port 0x230 bio

#device		scd0	at isa? port 0x230 bio

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device		sc0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
# Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver
#device		vt0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
#options		"PCVT_FREEBSD=210"	# pcvt running on FreeBSD 2.1
options		XSERVER			# include code for XFree86
# If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines
#options		PCVT_SCANSET=2		# IBM keyboards are non-std

# Mandatory, don't remove
device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

#
# Laptop support (see LINT for more options)
#
#device		apm0    at isa?		# Advanced Power Management
#options		APM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK	# Workaround some buggy APM BIOS

device		sio0	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
device		sio2	at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
device		sio3	at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr

device		lpt0	at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
device		lpt1	at isa? port? tty
device		mse0	at isa? port 0x23c tty irq 5 vector mseintr
device		psm0	at isa? disable port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr

# Order is important here due to intrusive probes, do *not* alphabetize
# this list of network interfaces until the probes have been fixed.
# Right now it appears that the ie0 must be probed before ep0. See
# revision 1.20 of this file.
device de0
device fxp0
device vx0
device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq  5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 net irq  7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr
device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
device ix0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 32768 vector ixintr
device le0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 vector le_intr
device lnc0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 drq 0 vector lncintr
device ze0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector zeintr
device zp0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector zpintr

pseudo-device	loop
pseudo-device	ether
pseudo-device	log
pseudo-device	sl	1
# ijppp uses tun instead of ppp device
#pseudo-device	ppp	1
pseudo-device	tun	1
pseudo-device	pty	32
pseudo-device	gzip		# Exec gzipped a.out's

controller      snd0
device mss0 at isa? port 0x530 irq 10 drq 1 vector adintr

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