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From: Till Immanuel Patzschke <tip@internetwork-ag.de>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Q] cannot fork w/ 1000s of procs (but still mem avail.)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:08:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC32117.52E68787@internetwork-ag.de> (raw)

Hi,

hopefully a simple question to answer: I get "cannot fork" messages on my
machine running some 20000 processes and threads (1 master proc, 3 threads),
where each (master) process opens a socket and does IP traffic over it.
Although there is plenty of memory left (4GB box, 2GB used, 0 swap), I get
"cannot fork - out of memory" when trying to increase the number of procs. (If
none of the procs does IP, I can start more [of course?!].)
Anything I can do to increase the number of active processes using IP? Any
kernel paramter, limit, sizing?

Many thanks for the help in advance!

Immanuel


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             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 16:08 Till Immanuel Patzschke [this message]
2001-10-09 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-10 20:54 Andries.Brouwer
2001-10-25  5:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan

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