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