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Re: (v)forking problems

To: rich cannnings <rich@cannings.org>
Subject: Re: (v)forking problems
From: Peter Valchev <pvalchev@sightly.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:56:49 -0700
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
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> I routinely recieve fork(2) and vfork(2) errors while running 
> various operations, receive errors such as:
> 
> 	/bin/sh: cannot fork - try again
> 
> My system is *not* under severe load during these times. What must 
> I change to allow more forking? Must a call something with sysctl? 
> ulimit?

ulimit -p, default is 128 and you're probably going over that
maxproc in /etc/login.conf, set yourself to "staff" is best

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