Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:31:52 +0100 |
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Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:45:39 +0100 > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Are you running as an unprivileged user? If so, this may be the point > > that's biting you. Can you try applying the attached patch to find more > > information? > [snip] > I'm also experiencing this on an X86_64 system as an unprivileged user.
Thanks for your help.
> With your patch applied I get the following repeated several times > during the boot, but with no apparent ill effects: > > [ 31.033195] copy_process() = -513
That's probably nothing to worry about. It -ERESTARTNOINTR, indicating, I would guess, that fork() was interrupted by a signal.
> When the fork call starts to fail after a few minutes the following is logged: > > [ 223.039938] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000) > [ 223.044744] copy_process() = -11 > [ 226.660319] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000) > [ 226.664166] copy_process() = -11
Okay. That's useful, thanks. That indicates that my accounting of user processes is incorrect somewhere. This won't show up when running as a privileged user only.
David
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