On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:54:07PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some times i am not able to open more than "n" number of xterms in my
> X ( fvwm2 ).
> 'n' varies but the error I get while trying to open xterm through
> another x term is
>
> $ xterm
> xterm: Error 29, errno 35: Resource temporarily unavailable
> Reason: spawn: fork() failed
>
> If I try to open aterm through another aterm i get.
>
> $ aterm
> aterm: can't fork
> aterm: aborting
>
> Sometimes
>
> $ls
>
> jut hangs!
>
> What could be the trouble?
It's likely to be too many processes or some other resource. Such limits
can be raised in /etc/login.conf (although the default process limit is
already rather high for simple use...)
Joachim
