You're running really low on free memory. Kill processes, add ram, or add
swap.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> I am starting to get this from various places - cron, bash, rsh. In
> fact, rsh refuses to run at all. I grepped thru kernel source and
> didn't turn up anything. This is a home/desktop box with 6.1 fully
> updated running X, etc. I find absolutley nothing unusual with top,
> ps, netstat.
>
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ ssh junior
> fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ procinfo
> Linux 2.2.15pre9 (root@feenix) (gcc egcs-2.91.66) #1 2CPU [feenix.]
> Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
> Mem: 128080 125100 2980 15860 2620 32056
> Swap: 64224 56840 7384
>
> Bootup: Sat Feb 19 22:26:47 2000 Load average: 0.29 0.17 0.11 2/88 4197
>
> user : 1d 15:34:54.01 2.9% page in : 7470659 disk 1: 992690r 1266412w
> nice : 0:00:00.00 0.0% page out: 3153765 disk 2: 339898r 352979w
> system: 2d 20:21:40.16 5.1% swap in : 251522 disk 3: 15r 0w
> idle : 51d 12:56:07.43 91.9% swap out: 70104
> uptime: 28d 0:26:20.77 context :1904290698
>
> irq 0: 242078080 timer irq 9: 2888255 eth0
> irq 1: 2455139 keyboard irq 10: 49601 eth1
> irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 12: 3393848 PS/2 Mouse
> irq 4: 12173 irq 13: 1 fpu
> irq 5: 1 soundblaster irq 14: 2953985 ide0
> irq 6: 2684 irq 15: 62032 ide1
> irq 8: 113 rtc
>
>
> Any clues?
>
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