Intel S3000AH i386 4.3-current 23 June Snapshot cannot fork try again
Hi, I got two machine on June 23rd snapshots, which slowly decrease its free memory till it drops dead. Actually, this happens since maybe 3 latest snapshots during last week till now. When it did, even when I currently ssh-ing to the machine, and execute a command such uname -a or anything, it replies cannot fork try again or, via console internal resource failure. So, Here is dmesg: OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #4: Mon Jun 23 17:05:42 WIT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC RTC BIOS diagnostic error ffixed_disk,invalid_time cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 3.01 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,S SE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR real mem = 1069670400 (1020MB) avail mem = 1026125824 (978MB) RTC BIOS diagnostic error ffixed_disk,invalid_time mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/11/06, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0x3fbf4000 (42 entries) bios0: vendor Intel Corporation version S3000.86B.02.00.0044.071120071047 date 07/11/2007 bios0: Intel S3000AH acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC WDDT MCFG ASF! SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices SLPB(S4) P32_(S4) UAR1(S1) PEX4(S4) PEX5(S4) UHC1(S1) UHC2(S1) UHC3(S1) UHC4(S1) EHCI(S1) AC9M(S4) AZAL(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (P32_) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX0) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX2) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX3) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX4) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEX5) acpicpu0 at acpi0: FVS, 3000, 2400 MHz acpibtn0 at acpi0: SLPB bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0x9000 0xc9000/0x1800 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel E7230 Host rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x01: irq 9 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 Intel 82801G PCIE rev 0x01: irq 9 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 Intel 82801G PCIE rev 0x01: irq 11 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 em0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 Intel PRO/1000MT (82573E) rev 0x03: irq 9, address 00:15:17:49:04:0d Intel 82573E Serial rev 0x03 at pci3 dev 0 function 3 not configured Intel 82573E KCS rev 0x03 at pci3 dev 0 function 4 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x01: irq 11 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x01: irq 10 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x01: irq 11 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x01: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 Intel 82801GB USB rev 0x01: irq 11 ehci0: timed out waiting for BIOS usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI rev 0xe1 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 skc0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 D-Link Systems DGE-530T B1 rev 0x11, Yukon Lite (0x9): irq 11 sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:1c:f0:11:6c:d4 eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 5 em1 at pci4 dev 1 function 0 Intel PRO/1000MT (82540EM) rev 0x02: irq 11, address 00:07:e9:0f:44:ac vga1 at pci4 dev 4 function 0 ATI ES1000 rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) em2 at pci4 dev 5 function 0 Intel PRO/1000MT (82541GI) rev 0x05: irq 9, address 00:15:17:49:04:0e ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801GB LPC rev 0x01: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 Intel 82801GB IDE rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets, initiator 7 cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: HL-DT-ST, DVD-ROM GDR-H30N, 1.00 ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801GB SATA rev 0x01: 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: ST380215AS 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 82801GB SMBus rev 0x01: irq 10 iic0 at ichiic0 adt0 at iic0 addr 0x2e: sch5027 rev 0x69 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-5300CL5 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 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0
Cannot fork
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. 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 @ 0xf/0x1 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: 0xc/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 0xf000, size 0x800 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
Re: Cannot fork
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 @ 0xf/0x1 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: 0xc/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 0xf000, size 0x800 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
Re: Cannot fork
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
Re: Cannot fork
On 26/09/2007, Markus Lude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have reached the limit of the maximal allowed processes run by you. Correct I am only allowed 64. A quick login class switch to staff should fix this. Thanks for the help. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when trying to issue shell commands: ksh: cannot fork - try again looking at my ulimit output, i see the following: $ ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds)unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 524288 stack(kbytes)4096 lockedmem(kbytes)316622 memory(kbytes) 945236 nofiles(descriptors) 128 processes128 should i change my login class settings in /etc/login.conf, or is sufficient to change them with $ ulimit -n 128, etc.? i'm not sure what's going on here, so any advice is appreciated. this is my desktop machine and i have a lot of stuff open concurrently on it. cheers, jake
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when trying to issue shell commands: ksh: cannot fork - try again looking at my ulimit output, i see the following: $ ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds)unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 524288 stack(kbytes)4096 lockedmem(kbytes)316622 memory(kbytes) 945236 nofiles(descriptors) 128 processes128 should i change my login class settings in /etc/login.conf, or is sufficient to change them with $ ulimit -n 128, etc.? i'm not sure what's going on here, so any advice is appreciated. this is my desktop machine and i have a lot of stuff open concurrently on it. First check if your programming efforts aren't generating lots of runaway processes. If that's not the case, login.conf is the answer; ulimit one works for the current shell and processes forked by the current shell. BTW, ulimit -n is for file descriptors, not procceses. -Otto
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
2006/4/14, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when trying to issue shell commands: ksh: cannot fork - try again looking at my ulimit output, i see the following: $ ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds)unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 524288 stack(kbytes)4096 lockedmem(kbytes)316622 memory(kbytes) 945236 nofiles(descriptors) 128 processes128 should i change my login class settings in /etc/login.conf, or is sufficient to change them with $ ulimit -n 128, etc.? i'm not sure what's going on here, so any advice is appreciated. this is my desktop machine and i have a lot of stuff open concurrently on it. Hhmmm... is it KDE?, it may use many file descriptors, specially while browsing with Konqueror. cheers, jake -- Gerardo Santana Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace - Don Benito Juarez http://santanatechnotes.blogspot.com/
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when trying to issue shell commands: ksh: cannot fork - try again [rest deleted for brevity] Are you maybe running out of memory? Is your swap partition big enough? CU, Sico. --
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
Original message Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:05:55 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ?? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org since i've started doing C programming on my openbsd-3.8 release machine, i've had a problem with running processes. sometimes i get the following message when trying to issue shell commands: ksh: cannot fork - try again [rest deleted for brevity] Are you maybe running out of memory? Is your swap partition big enough? CU, Sico. -- i have 730MB of 1GB available and that likely answers your question about swap. i am also not running KDE, i use the default fvwm. i will change my login class to staff and restart my X session, a la otto's suggestion, to see if that fixes it. everybody who replied CC'ed me, so i got 3 duplicate replies since i'm subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] why the CC fellas?
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
ksh: cannot fork - try again [rest deleted for brevity] Are you maybe running out of memory? Is your swap partition big enough? CU, Sico. -- i have 730MB of 1GB available and that likely answers your question about swap. I suppose. i am also not running KDE, i use the default fvwm. i will change my login class to staff and restart my X session, a la otto's suggestion, to see if that fixes it. Do try every suggestion, as the solution to your problem could be among them. everybody who replied CC'ed me, so i got 3 duplicate replies since i'm subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] why the CC fellas? A matter of habit I suppose, sorry for that. With procmail I myself kill dupes so as to not have that problem. CU, Sico. --
Re: ksh: cannot fork - try again ??
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
everybody who replied CC'ed me, so i got 3 duplicate replies
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