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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recompile with maxusers 100 has no effect? Can't run more then 38 processes? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 17:18:24 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 31 Message-ID: <331CC9E0.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <5fiekj$4d4$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36577 Zenin wrote: > > 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? kargl[279] limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 65536 kbytes stacksize 8192 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse 24576 kbytes descriptors 64 memorylocked 10106 kbytes maxproc 100 Yes, you're hitting a shell imposed limit. The above is for tcsh. Bash probably has some type of limit. You might try reading the man page or info file. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html