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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
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:39:52 +0200
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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