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 --
Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~leist/
