Subject: Re: Why I always get " Can't fork" when I install package.
To: By Will <by_will@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/08/2000 14:22:14
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:08:11PM -0800, By Will wrote:
> I use NetBSD 1.4.1, but these days when I am tring to instlall some package which is very easy to install before, I get such a mesaage" Can' fork, ps table is full". I don't know why this happed.

What architecture are you running ? How loaded is the system ?
Typically this happens because there are to many processes already
started; you can try bumping maxusers in the kernel config file.

> 
> And when I use "make", I alway get error message " get fatal signal 10". But after I make again. Everything is OK.

10 is SIGBUS. Hum, hardware problem maybe ? Or maybe you're out of swap ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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