On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:47:35 +0100 Per Jessen
Steve Graegert wrote:
I just ran the above via a remote konsole, and my 2-way machine certainly _appears_ to be locked up. I'll have to make my way to the > computer-room to check out the local console.
Sorry, to hear that. I've used this code for years in trainings on a couple of platforms. Never tried that on an Intel box running Linux prior to 2.6. Can hardly believe that 2.4 can be compromised that easily :-
What's interesting is - it reported CHILD_MAX = 999, yet your bit of code was allowed to start 7000+ processes? (see my other posting) This is not an area I've ever looked into - do I need to enable something or other in order to have a cap on the number of processes?
Hard to know from this distance, but there are hard limits and soft limits (though these can be the same), but the soft limit can't be above the hard limit. Try "ulimit -u", "ulimit -Su" and "ulimit -Hu". ken -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.