After doing a bit more research I stumbled upon this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253903/creating-threads-fails-with-resource-temporarily-unavailable-with-4-3-kernel https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675129
Looks like systemd imposes another, smaller limit on the number of processes that a user can run: cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/user.slice/user-1000.slice/pids.max 12288 It would have been nice if the 'fork' man page mentioned that this could be a cause for failure. :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624043 Title: Call to fork/clone fails with EAGAIN (before encountering resource limits) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1624043/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
