Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755554AbYHJMz2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753829AbYHJMzT (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:55:19 -0400 Received: from fizeau.zen.co.uk ([212.23.8.67]:44728 "EHLO fizeau.zen.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753630AbYHJMzS (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:55:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 8495 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:55:17 EDT Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:30:44 +0100 From: Grant Wilson To: David Howells Cc: Jasper Bryant-Greene , dhowells@redhat.com, Thomas Meyer , James Morris , Linux-Kernel , Linux-Next Subject: Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Message-ID: <20080810113044.19143b0a@worthy.swandive.local> In-Reply-To: <10251.1218361539@redhat.com> References: <1218322518.3268.0.camel@luna.unix.geek.nz> <1218287473.3155.13.camel@dhcppc0> <1218281190.3155.5.camel@dhcppc0> <1218214935.3146.5.camel@dhcppc0> <14476.1218286327@redhat.com> <15386.1218290826@redhat.com> <10251.1218361539@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.71.45.175] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1011 Lines: 30 On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:45:39 +0100 David Howells wrote: [snip] > > Are you running as an unprivileged user? If so, this may be the point that's > biting you. Can you try applying the attached patch to find more information? [snip] I'm also experiencing this on an X86_64 system as an unprivileged user. With your patch applied I get the following repeated several times during the boot, but with no apparent ill effects: [ 31.033195] copy_process() = -513 When the fork call starts to fail after a few minutes the following is logged: [ 223.039938] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000) [ 223.044744] copy_process() = -11 [ 226.660319] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000) [ 226.664166] copy_process() = -11 HTH. Cheers, GRant -- 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/