Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:09:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | System Administrator <> | Subject | Re: fork failing for no obvious reason? |
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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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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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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