nginx worker process wont start

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:37:21AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:04:21AM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> i get this error and it fails to start, i have 8GB free ram
> > http://linux.die.net/man/2/setuid
> >
> > EAGAIN
> >    The uid does not match the current uid and uid brings process
> >    over it's NPROC rlimit.
> 
> more /etc/passwd | grep mark
> mark:x:500:500::/home/mark:/bin/bash
> 
> from nginx configure
> 
> user  mark;
> worker_processes  1;
> 
> and this is how i start nginx
> sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx -c
> /home/mark/work/infrastructure/nginx_staticfarm.conf
> 
> 
> am i doing something wrong?

What does

ps -U mark | wc -l

show ?

> > It's the same error that was returned to fork()
> >
> > EAGAIN
> >    It was not possible to create a new process because the caller's
> >    RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit was encountered. To exceed this limit,
> >    the process must have either the CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
> >    capability.
> 
> do you know how do I give these capabilities to the processes?

What do

limits
or
ulimit -a

show ?


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