Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds before spitting out the message: "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable". The same thing happens when I run the command "which". As root this problem does not occur. After checking the system with "free" and "top", nothing out of the ordinary and "ulimit -a" gives me the following:
core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited 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) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 256 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited I've checked various mailing list archives and they mention running "ulimit -a" without much help beyond that. I appear to be within my limits but I am not sure as to how I would change these values such that they take affect for all users. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thanks, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
