Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 16:40:32 EST


Hi,

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:26:47 -0700 mark wrote:
>> have only 505 processes running
>> ps aux | wc -l
>> 505

[ quoting deleted for clarification ]

>> max user processes (-u) 1024

> The only place that fork() returns EAGAIN is for number of
> processes being >= its limit. Does this user already have >= 1024
> processes?

Hannes
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