Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
On Sunday 03 March 2002 23:31, Pete Harlan wrote:
> > I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled
> > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get
> > rid of them.
>
> I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 300
> processes running. /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max is the only relevant
> knob I've found, and it is set at 4095.
>
> Similarly, we could be out of file descriptors, but
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max (which presumably caps the number of open
> files?) is set at 8192; I'm sure the 300 processes didn't each have
> 25+ files open.
>
> Does anyone know how to increase the number of allowed processes?
see "man bash, /ulimit", you can set these values conveniently in
/etc/security/limits.conf which is read by pam.
cheers,
Yven
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