Sorry.  It seems to have been just a ulimit and a login.conf value
that I had not increased enough.

On 01-31 13:20, Luke A. Call wrote:
> [....]
> I am getting "Resource temporarily unavailable" in
> /var/log/authlog when I try to open too many "ssh [-X] user@localhost"
> connections, or even "fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" when
> running "$ cat > /tmp/somefile".  
> 
> In "man 3 __tfork" I see:
> [EAGAIN]        Resource temporarily unavailable.  The system-imposed
>               limit on the total number of threads under execution
>               would be exceeded.  This limit is configuration-
>               dependent.
> 
> [EAGAIN]        Resource temporarily unavailable.  The system-imposed
>               limit MAXUPRC on the total number of threads under
>               execution by a single user would be exceeded.  MAXUPRC
>               is currently defined in <sys/param.h> as CHILD_MAX,
>               which is currently defined as 80 in <sys/syslimits.h>.

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