upgrade to fedora 9 bash fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Mon May 19 23:27:19 UTC 2008
On 19May2008 10:36, mark <markkicks at gmail.com> wrote:
| I upgraded to FC9 from FC8, I never had a problem with FC8. Now I get
| this error when I try to start a python app, or do anything on a
| regular basis.
| I have over 13GB free RAM, and only 2GB of it is used. The box is a
| dual quad core Intel Xeon 5405 with 16GB RAM.
I wish I had such a box:-)
| bash fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
| 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
|
| In /var/log/messages this is the only weird message
| May 19 10:32:16 XXX kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.
Are you running a web server? It may be forking like mad trying to
service these requests...
| have only 425 processes running
| ps aux | wc -l
| 425
Does "ps axf" tell you anything useful/unusual? I find it more helpful
than "aux" because it shows the parent/child tree.
Hmm, another thought. See what ulimit says about your process limit;
maybe F9 have some default limits that F8 did not.
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