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Re: fork()

To: Hannah Schroeter <uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Re: fork()
From: Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>
Date: 04 Feb 2002 10:24:25 +0100
Cc: Scircuit <circuit@adelphia.net>, misc@openbsd.org
In-reply-to: Hannah Schroeter's message of "Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:38:36 +0100"
References: <20020202185733.003fc787.circuit@adelphia.net> <20020203183836.GA5432@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Hannah Schroeter <uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Scircuit wrote:
> > I increased my max number of process and kern.forkstat.forks by 100 and I 
> > still get this error when running multiple instances of the same program:
> > % bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable.
> 
> > I used sysctl -w to increase those 2 values and yet I am still getting that 
> > error and my system response is very slow.  Any suggestions?

I don't see how you could have changed the kern.forkstat.forks since that
is a statistics variable and read only.

//art

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