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Date:      Sun, 09 Aug 1998 13:20:11 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reminder : can't fork 
Message-ID:  <199808092020.NAA07708@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Aug 1998 12:33:27 PDT." <199808091933.MAA07114@rah.star-gate.com> 

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> Occassionally, my system refuses to fork and pending on what I was doing
> daemons such as sendmail die -- usually this is after I tried to compile
> a big program such as mozilla however I have seen the bug surfaced when
> I think I have not exhausted my swap space unfortunately most of the times
> this happens I am at work and it is really hard to diagnose the problem.
> 
> This problem has been around for about 6 months now.

Pilot error.  Your resource limits are too low.

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