Joey, I was re-reading your message and noticed you had already tried maxprocperuid, my bad. However, What does bash> ulimit -a Say on your machine, on mine, even though ulimit says unlimited, ulimit -a tells me ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 6144 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 100 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 14336 I think you have to explicitly bump up your ulimit in your shell -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.