Once upon a time, Matthias Saou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hi, > > I'm having a bit of trouble on some loaded web servers. Having recompiled > apache after raising it's upper possible limit of processes, once it > reaches a bit more than 400 processes, my shell goes berzerk, forks are > impossible... a real mess.
OK, after searching a bit more, I've found it. I'm running a 2.2.19 kernel, so here is the problem : #define NR_TASKS 512 /* On x86 Max about 4000 */ (from /usr/src/linux-2.2.19/include/linux/tasks.h) This is a fairly low limit IMHO... now let's recompile that kernel! Matthias -- Matthias (Thias) Saou http://www.marmotte.net/ --------------------- French - Canadian - Spanish resident http://rpmforge.net/ - Hairy and scary RPM related projects http://freshrpms.net/ - RPMs just like mom used to make them _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
