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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: mark <markkicks@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:39:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873aob4civ.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521132845.72db5748.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (Randy Dunlap's message of "Wed, 21 May 2008 13:28:45 -0700")

Hi,

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> writes:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:26:47 -0700 mark wrote:
>> have only 505 processes running
>> ps aux | wc -l
>> 505

[ quoting deleted for clarification ]

>> max user processes              (-u) 1024

> The only place that fork() returns EAGAIN is for number of
> processes being >= its limit.  Does this user already have >= 1024
> processes?

	Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 18:26 fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads mark
2008-05-21 20:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-21 20:39   ` mark
2008-05-21 20:50     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-21 21:08       ` mark
2008-05-21 21:15         ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-21 21:27           ` mark
2008-05-21 21:32         ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-21 22:51           ` mark
2008-05-21 23:35             ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-22  0:09               ` mark
2008-05-22  0:29                 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-22  7:11                 ` するくめ
2008-05-21 20:39   ` Johannes Weiner [this message]

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