Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 11:21:22 -0700 From: Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wierd problem with forking. Message-ID: <199710091821.LAA01034@ichips.intel.com>
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I'm not sure if other people have gotten this problem, but I've been getting it a lot and I'm trying to figure out what it is. If I open about 5 windows, and netscape, I can't seem to type any program that wants to fork. For instance if I try to do a "man -k sendmail" or something like that, the fork fails and the man command kicks out. While trying to determine why the fork failed I wrote a short C program that would fork and exit. If the fork failed I capture the errno. However the fork program works everytime, while the man command fails. Whats going on here? I'm using the generic kernel in almost everything except for some of the drivers. But the other options remain the same. I have a PPro 150Mhz machine with 32 megs EDO running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I can give you some information like, when I do a vmstat (I thought I was running out of memory) I find that 26meg is on the avl list and about 6meg on the free list. The machine doesn't indicate swapping, so it isn't memory. Can swap space be the culprit? I've set swap space to be twice the physical memory. So I have a 64 meg swap space. Any ideas would be great. sri -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sriram Ramkrishna | Intel Corporation Unix System Adminstrator | MD-6 Division, Technical Support phone: 503-264-3529 | email: sramkris@ichips.intel.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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