Edd Barrett wrote:
Hi all,

Yesterday my workstation started doing this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:eddlocal> ifconfig
ksh: cannot fork - try again

It usually only lasts a couple of minutes, but during which time the
machine is pretty useless.


you sure you've not got your maximum number of processes for your login class? i routinely see this error on my workstations when i've got lots of stuff open. the proper solution is to bump up the login.conf values for your login class, not sure if this can be fixed sans complete logout and relogin.

if it's lasting a couple minutes then maybe some processes are being created and destroyed shortly thereafter.

cheers,
jake

Top tells me that I have >500MB of RAM free, and that the OS has not
even started swapping.

I am going to try upgrading my snapshot to see if that fixes this, but
I thought I should report it incase.

OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #2: Tue Sep 11 14:16:04 BST 2007
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz
cpu0: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR
real mem  = 1055678464 (1006MB)
avail mem = 1013071872 (966MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/05/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfbe40 (76 entries)
bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version "BF86510A.86A.0058.P15.0404050012"
date 04/05/2004
bios0: Intel Corporation D865GLC
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf3d00/224 (12 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa200! 0xca800/0x1000 0xcb800/0x1000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-I/0-1" rev 0x02
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82865G Video" rev 0x02: aperture
at 0xf0000000, size 0x8000000
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-CSA" rev 0x02
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
em0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000CT (82547EI)" rev 0x00:
irq 10, address 00:0c:f1:f5:13:41
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 5
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 10
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB2" rev 0x02: irq 9
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0: "Intel EHCI root hub", rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xc2
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02:
24-bit timer at 3579545Hz
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02:
DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)
pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801EB SATA" rev 0x02: DMA,
channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI
pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD800JD-00MSA1>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02: irq 3
iic0 at ichiic0
adt0 at iic0 addr 0x2e: emc6d100 rev 0x65
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801EB/ER AC97" rev 0x02: irq
3, ICH5 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445375 (Analog Devices AD1985)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Mouse", rev 1.00/1.02, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons
wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
uhidev1 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev1: "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Keyboard", rev 1.00/1.01, addr 3, iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev1: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes, layout 32
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 47998 Hz, will use 48000 Hz

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