Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0600, 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?

    Do a ulimit -Su. 

    Then read and exit /etc/security/limits.conf

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