Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote: > > I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled > > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get > > rid of them. > > I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 30

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:54PM -0800, Angus D Madden wrote: > Karsten M. Self, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0800: > > > > For a fork, I'd suspect you're out of user processes, though checking > > other resource limits (generally memory and filehandles) is > adviseable. > > > > There are

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Pete" == Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pete> Does anyone know how to increase the number of allowed Pete> processes? if you are running a 2.2 series kernel, you have to recompile the kernel after tweaking a header file. it's been a while, but I think you only have to change on

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Angus D Madden
Karsten M. Self, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0800: > > For a fork, I'd suspect you're out of user processes, though checking > other resource limits (generally memory and filehandles) is adviseable. > > There are hard-compiled limits of 256 user, and 512 system, processes, > in the 2.2.x ke

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 03, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to ssh from one of my Woody boxes into the other > (using OpenSSH) I am able to connect but I get the following message: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > The same message then appears each time

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Yven Leist
On Sunday 03 March 2002 23:31, Pete Harlan wrote: > > I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled > > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get > > rid of them. > > I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 300 > processe

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Pete Harlan
> I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get > rid of them. I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 300 processes running. /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max is the only relevant

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Yes, indeed there have been a huge number of defunct sh processes... It works now. Many thanks again! best regards, Balazs On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:52:24AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: >On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is the output of free: >>

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > This is the output of free: > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:222788 204144 18644 0 6984 83512 > -/+ buffers/cache: 113648 109140

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, This is the output of free: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:222788 204144 18644 0 6984 83512 -/+ buffers/cache: 113648 109140 Swap: 747012 93416 653596 >From this it seems to me that I s

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > >Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this? > You're out of memory. Add some swap. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

1998-06-19 Thread Guido Bozzetto
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: > It looks as though your system runs out of pid's (unlikely), or you hit > your maximum number of processes (not impossible). What does ulimit -a > say about your max user processes? How many processes are running? > (try top, or `ps ax'). > > ps ax | wc -l > > Eric

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

1998-06-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I've e Debian 2.0 frozen host with X windows and fvwm95. > Now when I run a program and some windows are opened often I'm > obtainig: > xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable > or when I attempting to run xterm: > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > and so