Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:57:25PM +0100, julien Touche wrote:
> 
>>is there is a way to limit number of fork ?
>>
>>i'm not root and when trying to build index or when there is many 
>>dependancies, i get "sh: fork failed - too many processes"
> 
> 
> Try 'limit' (in csh/tcsh) or 'ulimit' in sh.  Like
> 
> # limit maxproc 400
> 
>   -jm


excuse me, i have not explained me clearly. i don't try to limit. In 
fact it is limited by root but more try to configure pkgsrc/bmake/etc. 
not to make too many fork, else i have the above message.
i have a 'ulimit -u 50' made by root, and when i compile, bmake or bmake 
readme (at pkgsrc root for example), i get "sh: fork failed - too many 
processes"

so is there a way to said in mk.conf or anything else that is useless to 
try more ?


Regards

		Julien