From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760997AbYETS1A (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 14:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758283AbYETS0u (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:50 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.232]:6326 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757477AbYETS0t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Tyr1ihQJc4VaUQc/oBKSmgaHsPtofqEwN7yMTWq3783KKzhls3U/8LxLlOZXqYoRgwQmfuATqGQSWpNlYvqQupp2QVKo26iU5qBwzmnbJNyAALF2tEeAOUOwvMZAqpCYcSDkvu6STeijTl3aYa3rdqFedcF9fRJLl1sfE7/OsXo= Message-ID: <82fa9e310805201126q45e869bdub74a947068fe612a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:26:47 -0700 From: mark To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I upgraded to 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 fedora core 9, now I get this error when I try to login to the box, kill a pr start a python app, or do anything on a regular basis. fork: Resource temporarily unavailable I have over 10GB RAM free, and zero swap spaced used. The box is a dual quad core Intel Xeon 5405 with 16GB RAM. There is no error message in /var/log/messages or dmesg ... how do I identify the problem? thanks! uname -a Linux XXX 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16086 3189 12896 0 42 666 -/+ buffers/cache: 2481 13605 Swap: 1983 0 1983 have only 505 processes running ps aux | wc -l 505 uptime 11:24:15 up 39 min, 1 user, load average: 3.54, 3.47, 2.87 ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 137216 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 32768 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 1024 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited