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Getting "-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" in OSX

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Problem

I seem to run into problems with the max. number of processes every so often. Anyone know what is best practice for fixing this? Running OSX 10.6 on a MacBook Pro i7. ulimit -a returns these values: When the error occurred I checked, and there were 102 running tasks and 523 threads.

Error Output

core file size (blocks, -c)     0
data seg size (kbytes, -d)      unlimited
file size (blocks, -f)      unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l)     …

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Fix for: Getting "-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" in OSX

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Use in a console to find out the limit. Here in Linux, it's . If this value is too low, raise it: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=200311151254441

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