> are you using ulimits? i dont know if sash has builtin resource limits, > check ulimit -u, for most systems it should say unlimited, unless it is > set by you(or another admin) for most of my systems i set it to 12 which > is pretty tight. how many processes are running on the system? if its a > big system (hundreds of processes) you may be encountering a hard limit > set by the kernel, which can be changed in 2.0.x by altering the source, > and i believe on-the-fly with /proc in 2.2.x >
I don't run ulimits... ulimits -u : command not found. As for a hard limit on processes... If I log in as root (as opposed to su), I have no problem whatsoever. Only when I su to root do I have this problem? Derk