On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:11:57AM +0100, 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. > > Top tells me that I have >500MB of RAM free, and that the OS has not > even started swapping.
You have reached the limit of the maximal allowed processes run by you. You could raise the limit in /etc/login.conf, but first I would check if there is something wrong on your machine with that many processes. It could be OK. > I am going to try upgrading my snapshot to see if that fixes this, but > I thought I should report it incase. Regards, Markus
