Re: cannot fork problem

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:23:00 GMT

In article <news-7A40E0.13411729052003@news.tdl.com>,
Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:
>In article <3ed61b1d$1_1@news.landsraad.net>, wilt <abcd@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>> I have an ML-530 Compaq server running SCO 5.0.6. There are about 64
>> concurrent users using an Informix aplication.
>>
>> Ocasyonally, the system shows me a message "cannot fork: too many process".
...
>
>On Solaris, this is usually swap space being to low. Check your system
>resources monitor logs.

The error says "too many processes", not "no memory".

That's usually due to running out of process table entries. Many versions
of Unix have a kernel configuration option for the number of users, and the
process table is sized based on this. Increase the n-users setting, and it
should alleviate the problem.

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