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bash: fork issue

Hi!


I've got a problems with using terminal on macOS 10.12.3

When I try to run any command I get the following message: can't fork process: Resource temporarily unavailable.

I have already had such problem. Last time I was able to fix it - increase the number of process and my system looked like:

sysctl -a | grep maxproc
kern.maxproc: 2048
kern.maxprocperuid: 2048


ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 65536
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 2048
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited


I thought that the problem was solved, but now I had that issue once again.

I was able to solve this problem this time with reboot - but it's strongly undesireable to reboot my mac every time.

Do you have any advise how to fix that problem once and for all?
Thanks in advance.

Mac mini, macOS Sierra (10.12.3)

Posted on Feb 26, 2018 2:22 AM

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