From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 9 13:21:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19707 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles167.castles.com [208.214.165.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19685 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07708; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808092020.NAA07708@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Amancio Hasty cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reminder : can't fork In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Aug 1998 12:33:27 PDT." <199808091933.MAA07114@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 13:20:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message