On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:07:35PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:32:06AM -0700, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > >>>>> "tony" == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > tony> For both cases, would it possible to post the kernel version of > > the test > > tony> box? Maybe it's part of the equation. > > > > (I actually did, privately, to Bill, forgot to cc the list). > > > > I'm running 2.4.18, on a dual P2 1.0 Ghz box, 512Mb/2Gb swap. > > > > turns out it might be a process limit problem. > > > Yes. By deafault the max number of threads is set to 320. Well, at least on my > 486 box. On Athlon I have it as 8k. > > > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max > > > If it says it can't fork, then it is threads-max that's the problem.
It even might be the shell, my standard debian zsh e.g. limits the
number um threads to 256:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > ulimit -u
256
It might help to set it higher:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > ulimit -u 8192
My 0.02,
-billy.
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