With both 105 and 106 (and maybe earlier) my account eventually
becomes unable to fork or vfork. It usually takes several days uptime
before this behavior becomes evident. It is account-specific... other
users can still fork. There isn't an unusually large number of
processes on the machine or for that user, but it acts as if that user
has used up all his available processes.
It may be somehow related to serial, networking, or ppp code. I have
a cron job that connects to the net to get my mail 3x daily, and it
always seems to be hung up on that group of jobs (cron, pppd,
dns-helper) when I've noticed the problem. After I kill some
processes for that user, I can then fork again, but as soon as a spawn
some new processes, it happens again. If I reboot, things seem mostly
normal again.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or have ideas about how to study
it?
-ltdan
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