Re: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

["F.P. Groeneveld" <derk@cistron.nl>]

> are you using ulimits? i dont know if sash has builtin resource limits,
> check ulimit -u, for most systems it should say unlimited, unless it is
> set by you(or another admin) for most of my systems i set it to 12 which
> is pretty tight. how many processes are running on the system? if its a
> big system (hundreds of processes) you may be encountering a hard limit
> set by the kernel, which can be changed in 2.0.x by altering the source,
> and i believe on-the-fly with /proc in 2.2.x
> 

I don't run ulimits... ulimits -u : command not found. As for a hard limit
on processes... If I log in as root (as opposed to su), I have no problem
whatsoever. Only when I su to root do I have this problem?

Derk