Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

From: James Morris
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 17:48:56 EST


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.


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