Friday, January 15, 2010

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Yet Another Linux Blog » Blog Archive » bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable: "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

I keep running into that error message on my Mac at work!

Turns out the default max number of processes is not friendly to those of us that like to have LOTS of terminal windows open. Luckily, another sysadmin has already written up a nice post on where to change the limit: echo “limit maxproc 256 512″ >> /etc/launchd.conf"
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