On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 03:11:20PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mattieu Baptiste <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Since the switch to rthreads, and the new snapshot packages, I see a
> > > lot of these errors after some time using my desktop machine:
> > > fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
> > >
> > > Then, I cannot start any process, and the machine starts to become
> > > unusable, till the next reboot. I'm using a lot firefox, thunderbird
> > > and XFCE.
> > >
> > > Do you see these errors? How could I track this?
> >
> > As a workaround, modify the staff class (which your user should be
> > part of) with these values:
> >
> > openfiles-cur=1024
> > openfiles-max=2048
> > maxproc-cur=512
> > maxproc-max=1024
> >
> > And increase maxproc to 1024 in your .xsession (ulimit -Sp 1024).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
>
> Hmm, didn't a diff go in that made the limits per-process again?
>
> -Otto
Actuyally, no. This was a case of wishful thinking. Though something
is in the works. The above workaround wil do until something is
actually commited.
-Otto
