Re: that thing wont fork

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Allan <am@topnet.de> wrote:

> I can't open more than ca. 15 xterms at a time. I can't have more,
> because i can't fork anymore.

Are you sure you are running out of processes?  I'd rather suspect a
lack of ptys, to be remedied with

# sh /dev/MAKEDEV pty1 pty2 pty3

which adds another 48 ptys for a total of 64, which also happens
to be the number compiled into GENERIC.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de