On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:30:53AM -0400, Wallace, Mark, CTR, ISD wrote:
> UNCLASSIFIED
>
> Solaris running on a sparc platform. Every time I launch nessus against a
> host, nessusd.messages fills up with errors like the following
>
>
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:36 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 1 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:37 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 2 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:39 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 3 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:42 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 4 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:46 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 5 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:51 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 6 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:28:57 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 7 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:29:04 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 8 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:29:12 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 9 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:29:21 2004][20273] fork() failed - sleeping 10 seconds
> [Tue Apr 13 10:29:31 2004][20273] fork() failed too many times - aborting
>
> Any suggestions? Clearly there is some resource lock which is preventing
> nessus from running the scan, but I need a bit more information to figure
> out which resource is locking
You're probably out of memory, or you have strong ulimits which prevent
you from doing that.
-- Renaud
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