On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 03:11:20PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mattieu Baptiste <mattie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since the switch to rthreads, and the new snapshot packages, I see a
> > lot of these errors after some time using my desktop machine:
> > fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> > Then, I cannot start any process, and the machine starts to become
> > unusable, till the next reboot. I'm using a lot firefox, thunderbird
> > and XFCE.
> >
> > Do you see these errors? How could I track this?
>
> As a workaround, modify the staff class (which your user should be
> part of) with these values:
>
> openfiles-cur=1024
> openfiles-max=2048
> maxproc-cur=512
> maxproc-max=1024
>
> And increase maxproc to 1024 in your .xsession (ulimit -Sp 1024).
>
> Cheers,
> David
Hmm, didn't a diff go in that made the limits per-process again?
-Otto
