On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:57:32AM +0100, Sico Bruins wrote:
| On one of my PCs I ran into the process table full / cannot fork
| trouble, so I decided to make a single change in the GENERIC
| kernel config: I bumped up the maxusers setting to 128.
Which of the two did you run into ? proces table full or cannot fork ?
If the proces table is full, you can not fork, but if you can not fork
it's not necessary that your proces table is full. By default you are
limited to 64 processes via ulimit (this is the soft limit for the
default login class). Look into login.conf(5) and your shells manpage
for information on ulimit.
This way, you do not have to fiddle with your kernel configuration to
increase the amount of processes available to a user.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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