Joey, You need to increase your max proc per uid (do this using systcl). Here is how to do it: bash> sysctl kern.maxprocperuid kern.maxprocperuid = 100 bash> sudo sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=200 kern.maxprocperuid: 100 -> 200 Hope that helps, -Brian T On Nov 16, 2003, at 8:32 PM, Joey Stanford wrote: Howdy! I'm out of options, hoping you guys (and girls) might be able to clue me in. Running 10.3 will all the latest updates on a 2ghz, 2gig Dual G5. Using tcsh but bash has same problem. I keep running out of "resources" whatever that is when I hit about 135 pids (and I have over 100gig of disk left and about 500meg of unused memory when this happens). I get the standard "unable to fork" errors. e.g. 2003-11-14 10:56:20.479 Konfabulator[6491] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: couldn't fork 2003-11-14 16:18:14.697 Mail[1770] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: couldn't fork In term I get just "unable to fork" I bumped up my sysctl using /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxproc=2048 kern.maxprocperuid=512 and then unlimited in the shell: [joey@futune]:/Applications/entropy/src> limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize unlimited stacksize 65536 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse unlimited descriptors 10240 memorylocked unlimited maxproc 512 [joey@futune]:/Applications/entropy/src> lsof | wc -l 394 kern.maxfiles = 12288 kern.maxfilesperproc = 10240 Help? Any ideas? Thanks! ---------------------- http://stan4d.net http://entropy.stop1984.com [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of PGP.sig] _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.