Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761580AbYHHVsy (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:48:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753606AbYHHVsq (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:48:46 -0400 Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:42268 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753282AbYHHVsp (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:48:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:48:05 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Thomas Meyer cc: Linux-Kernel , Linux-Next , David Howells Subject: Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable In-Reply-To: <1218214935.3146.5.camel@dhcppc0> Message-ID: References: <1218214935.3146.5.camel@dhcppc0> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LRH 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 25 On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Thomas Meyer wrote: > Hi. > > Beginning with next-20080808 after letting the system run for 5 minutes > or so, I get an error from the fork call, e.g.: > > "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" > > Doing an "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" I was able to get an vmcore dump > of the running kernel using the kdump mechanism. > > what should i do next? Which distro and version are you using? Please post your .config file. -- James Morris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/