Re: fork failing for no obvious reason?

System Administrator (admin@intergrafix.net)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:09:59 -0400 (EDT)

now that you mention it i started having sporadic fork errors on 2.2
I'll get a fork: Try again when restarting a web server process. And
sometimes when i run my web log analyzer i'll get fork: Try again. Maybe,
oh, once every 2 days or so.

right now i'm running 2.2.5 with openlinux 1.1, 256 RAM. Netscape
fasttrack webserver.

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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
admin@intergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services

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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Tim Smith wrote:

>
> Hi;
>
> I've got 2.2.4 SMP with two CPUs running a fairly busy web server, and I'm
> running into an odd problem. When the total number of processes on the
> system gets above around 170, non-root can no longer fork. Errno is set to
> EAGAIN. The per-user process limit is 256, so obviously no one is near that
> limit.
>
> >From root, I can fork to my heart's content--I have no trouble starting
> up 40 or 50 root shells (that's not a limit--I get tired of typing
> "sh<RETURN>" after that many).
>
> I've got half a gig of RAM, with about 400 meg free if buffers are
> subtracted out, so I don't seem to be running out of memory.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what resource I need more of?
>
> --Tim Smith
>
>
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