Messages in this thread | | | From | "David E. Fox" <> | Subject | Re: fork: out of memory | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:47:49 -0800 (PST) |
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> My work machine (a fresh RH 4.2 install with vanilla 2.1.65 added) > exhibited the 'out of memory, can't fork' behaviour on Friday. I have 32M > RAM and 80M swap and I had just installed the K desktop and the standalone > netscape communicator 4.04 ... I had a couple of terminals open (plus
Here, after getting the cannot fork: messages about three or four times since booting (a little over two days with 2.1.65) they haven't locked up the system. In one case, it caused a Makefile (building gimp at the time) to abort, but I was able to rerun it from basically where it left off.
In other instances, these haven't adversely affected the system. One was (as I reported) sent back to root in a crontab message, and the other I briefly saw 'sendmail: cannot fork out of memory' on my root console screen.
I've got a P100 with 16 megs of RAM and ~64 megs of swap.
> Rik: if you are reading this, kswapd was chomping 99% CPU and I wasn't > trying to do much aside from start netscape. I could watch it paint
I didn't notice that, but I'll look into it. At the time, netscape wasn't running, but I did have one or two xterms up, compiling in one window, grabbing news in the other, etc.
> --Craig
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