Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 10:58:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cannot fork Message-ID: <199804191458.KAA02223@rtfm.ziplink.net>
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Hello!
Every once in a while I get this message which will not go away
until I stop a few processes. It usually shows up when I run make,
which spawns processes left and right (like when making ports).
But I do not run that many:
mi@xxx:ports/editors/vim5 (155) ps -ax | wc -l
125
And there is plenty of swap:
mi@xxx:ports/editors/vim5 (156) pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd1s1b 65536 23068 42404 35% Interleaved
/dev/sd0s1b 65536 22784 42688 35% Interleaved
/dev/sd2s1b 65536 22564 42908 34% Interleaved
Total 196416 68416 128000 35%
Kernel limits known to me are also quite far from being close:
mi@xxx:ports/editors/vim5 (157) sysctl -a | grep proc
kern.maxproc: 2068
kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136
kern.maxprocperuid: 2067
Not too many files open:
mi@xxx:ports/editors/vim5 (162) su -K
mi@xxx:ports/editors/vim5 (149) lsof | wc -l
1601
And my user-ID belongs to the root's login class, so there should
be no artificial limitations. There is nothing interesting in the
log either. Machine has 128Mb of RAM.
This is happening on 2.2.6-STABLE and on -CURRENT (on a smaller
machine), so I doubt this is a bug. Rather a feature I do not
understand...
Thanks for clues!
-mi
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