since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've
had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when
trying to issue shell commands:

ksh: cannot fork - try again

looking at my ulimit output, i see the following:

$ ulimit -a
time(cpu-seconds)    unlimited
file(blocks)         unlimited
coredump(blocks)     unlimited
data(kbytes)         524288
stack(kbytes)        4096
lockedmem(kbytes)    316622
memory(kbytes)       945236
nofiles(descriptors) 128
processes            128

should i change my login class settings in /etc/login.conf, or is sufficient to
change them with "$ ulimit -n 128", etc.? i'm not sure what's going on here, so
any advice is appreciated.

this is my desktop machine and i have a lot of stuff open concurrently on it.

cheers,
jake

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