2006/4/14, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Hhmmm... is it KDE?, it may use many file descriptors, specially while browsing with Konqueror. > > cheers, > jake > > -- Gerardo Santana "Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace" - Don Benito Juarez http://santanatechnotes.blogspot.com/
