2000-12-28 08:43:58

by Brian Litzinger

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Subject: Which resource is temporarily unavailable

I'm getting

zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable

on a machine. It has 510 processes which are mostly
asleep, running under various user ids.

Multiple user accounts get the error when it occurs, though
root seems to continue to work fine.

How do I determine which resource is the problem so I can
fix the shortage?

System is Linux 2.2.18 with 384MB RAM.

Thanks,

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Brian Litzinger <[email protected]>


2000-12-28 11:51:19

by David Schwartz

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Subject: RE: Which resource is temporarily unavailable


> zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
>
> on a machine. It has 510 processes which are mostly
> asleep, running under various user ids.

> How do I determine which resource is the problem so I can
> fix the shortage?

Sounds like processes/tasks is the resource in question. Probably a system
limit of 512 processes.

DS