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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: RE: Which resource is temporarily unavailable
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 03:20:28 -0800
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> 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

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