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SubjectRe: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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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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