On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:54:07PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some times i am not able to open more than "n" number of xterms in my
> X ( fvwm2 ).
> 'n' varies but the error I get while trying to open xterm through
> another x term is
> 
> $ xterm
> xterm: Error 29, errno 35: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Reason: spawn: fork() failed
> 
> If I try to open aterm through another aterm i get.
> 
> $ aterm
> aterm: can't fork
> aterm: aborting
> 
> Sometimes
> 
> $ls
> 
> jut hangs!
> 
> What could be the trouble?

It's likely to be too many processes or some other resource. Such limits
can be raised in /etc/login.conf (although the default process limit is
already rather high for simple use...)

                Joachim

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