From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 27 17:28:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04476 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04447 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA26719 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA14741; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:53:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA12541; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:38:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:38:18 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: kmitch@weenix.guru.org (Keith Mitchell) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP problem References: <199701270756.CAA03562@weenix.guru.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701270756.CAA03562@weenix.guru.org>; from Keith Mitchell on Jan 27, 1997 02:56:23 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Keith Mitchell wrote: > | DUMP: too many slaves, 1 (recompile smaller): Resource temporarily unavailab > le > | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > > Does anyone know how to fix this too many slaves error condition that keeps > popping up?? if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, cmd) < 0 || (slaves[i].pid = fork()) < 0) quit("too many slaves, %d (recompile smaller): %s\n", i, strerror(errno)); It translates into ``Cannot fork''. Seems you reached the process limit of the user running amanda. See limits (in the csh), or ulimit (in Bourne-alike shells). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)