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From: Krzysztof Duleba <krzysan AT skrzynka DOT pl>
Subject:  Re: [OT] Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Date:  Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:58:06 +0200
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Jason Pyeron wrote:

> I recently upgraded to XP on my laptop from 2000. It seems I can run 
> only about a hundred processes instead of 200-300. Why is the limit so 
> low? Is it adjustable? support and msdn don't seem to say.

I can run about 300 processes on my XP SP2 laptop no problem.

$ ps -aW|wc -l
285

But:

$ ps|wc -l
131

Krzysztof Duleba


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