Date: 11 May 2002 01:53:24 +0100 From: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailabl Message-ID: <1021078405.301.18.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>
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--=-fvu2n8CpRwo5nlJONbU7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today I noticed that my system being sluggish and actually freezing up for (somtimes) long periods when performing tasks - man [command] for example, would hang for almost two minutes before returning with output. I noticed this more clearly when cleaning my ports tree: =3D=3D=3D> audio/Maaate Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libiconv-1.7_4 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for bison-1.35_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gettext-0.11.1_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gmake-3.79.1_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.4_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for expat-1.95.2 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for Maaate-0.2.2 =3D=3D=3D> audio/ac3dec =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for ac3dec-0.6.1 =3D=3D=3D> audio/adpcm =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for adpcm-1.2 =3D=3D=3D> audio/afsp Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libiconv-1.7_4 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for bison-1.35_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gettext-0.11.1_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gmake-3.79.1_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.4_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for expat-1.95.2 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for afsp-6.4 =3D=3D=3D> audio/agbrowser ^C /usr/ports $=20 What's going on here? Here's what top is showing at the same moment in time: last pid: 72430; load averages: 0.06, 0.60, 0.96 up 0+01:22:56 01:51:41 56 processes: 1 running, 55 sleeping CPU states: 8.2% user, 0.0% nice, 1.9% system, 0.4% interrupt, 89.5% idle Mem: 28M Active, 17M Inact, 38M Wired, 5144K Cache, 48M Buf, 286M Free Swap: 700M Total, 38M Used, 662M Free, 5% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 232 stacey 2 0 21436K 14652K select 5:41 3.52% 3.52% XF86_Mach64 287 stacey 2 0 7476K 1928K poll 2:48 2.20% 2.20% deskguide_appl 72430 stacey 28 0 1992K 1068K RUN 0:00 0.69% 0.29% top 264 stacey 2 0 8220K 2084K poll 0:03 0.05% 0.05% gnome-terminal 246 stacey 2 0 9184K 3728K select 0:44 0.00% 0.00% enlightenment 301 stacey 2 0 27284K 12952K poll 0:27 0.00% 0.00% evolution-mail 262 stacey 2 0 18676K 5360K poll 0:09 0.00% 0.00% evolution 258 stacey 2 0 8456K 2308K poll 0:07 0.00% 0.00% panel 72420 stacey 2 0 16372K 8448K poll 0:04 0.00% 0.00% gnome-gtkhtml- 174 root 2 0 912K 96K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% moused 297 stacey 2 0 18908K 2040K poll 0:02 0.00% 0.00% evolution-exec 317 stacey 2 0 18900K 4196K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% evolution-addr 260 stacey 2 0 3396K 716K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% xscreensaver 242 stacey 2 0 3028K 340K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% esd 284 stacey 2 0 7408K 1484K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tasklist_apple 306 stacey 2 0 19360K 676K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% evolution-cale 282 stacey 2 0 18772K 2224K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% wombat 72424 stacey 2 0 21016K 10152K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gnome-spell-co 278 stacey 2 0 3448K 1108K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% oafd Nothing terribly obvious to me here. Here's my space allocation: $ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 148823 43185 93733 32% / /dev/ad0s1f 11789353 1416100 9430105 13% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 297663 11875 261975 4% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /usr/ports $ Can anyone explain what's up here? Thanks for the time. Stacey --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-fvu2n8CpRwo5nlJONbU7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today I noticed that my system being sluggish and actually freezing up for (somtimes) long periods when performing tasks - man [command] for example, would hang for almost two minutes before returning with output. I noticed this more clearly when cleaning my ports tree: =3D=3D=3D> audio/Maaate Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libiconv-1.7_4 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for bison-1.35_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gettext-0.11.1_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gmake-3.79.1_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.4_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for expat-1.95.2 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for Maaate-0.2.2 =3D=3D=3D> audio/ac3dec =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for ac3dec-0.6.1 =3D=3D=3D> audio/adpcm =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for adpcm-1.2 =3D=3D=3D> audio/afsp Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libiconv-1.7_4 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for bison-1.35_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gettext-0.11.1_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for gmake-3.79.1_1 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.4_3 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for expat-1.95.2 =3D=3D=3D> Cleaning for afsp-6.4 =3D=3D=3D> audio/agbrowser ^C /usr/ports $=20 What's going on here? Here's what top is showing at the same moment in time: last pid: 72430; load averages: 0.06, 0.60, 0.96 up 0+01:22:56 01:51:41 56 processes: 1 running, 55 sleeping CPU states: 8.2% user, 0.0% nice, 1.9% system, 0.4% interrupt, 89.5% idle Mem: 28M Active, 17M Inact, 38M Wired, 5144K Cache, 48M Buf, 286M Free Swap: 700M Total, 38M Used, 662M Free, 5% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 232 stacey 2 0 21436K 14652K select 5:41 3.52% 3.52% XF86_Mach64 287 stacey 2 0 7476K 1928K poll 2:48 2.20% 2.20% deskguide_appl 72430 stacey 28 0 1992K 1068K RUN 0:00 0.69% 0.29% top 264 stacey 2 0 8220K 2084K poll 0:03 0.05% 0.05% gnome-terminal 246 stacey 2 0 9184K 3728K select 0:44 0.00% 0.00% enlightenment 301 stacey 2 0 27284K 12952K poll 0:27 0.00% 0.00% evolution-mail 262 stacey 2 0 18676K 5360K poll 0:09 0.00% 0.00% evolution 258 stacey 2 0 8456K 2308K poll 0:07 0.00% 0.00% panel 72420 stacey 2 0 16372K 8448K poll 0:04 0.00% 0.00% gnome-gtkhtml- 174 root 2 0 912K 96K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% moused 297 stacey 2 0 18908K 2040K poll 0:02 0.00% 0.00% evolution-exec 317 stacey 2 0 18900K 4196K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% evolution-addr 260 stacey 2 0 3396K 716K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% xscreensaver 242 stacey 2 0 3028K 340K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% esd 284 stacey 2 0 7408K 1484K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% tasklist_apple 306 stacey 2 0 19360K 676K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% evolution-cale 282 stacey 2 0 18772K 2224K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% wombat 72424 stacey 2 0 21016K 10152K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% gnome-spell-co 278 stacey 2 0 3448K 1108K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% oafd Nothing terribly obvious to me here. Here's my space allocation: $ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 148823 43185 93733 32% / /dev/ad0s1f 11789353 1416100 9430105 13% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 297663 11875 261975 4% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /usr/ports $ Can anyone explain what's up here? Thanks for the time. Stacey - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPNxrhPdn4A8qiCO5EQLrnwCdF+TEvuKBUrtwqbMjnEym1gQdYg0AoP4g u7t1NDfJ2DaiREhPX5ff5ZNj =W4hU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fvu2n8CpRwo5nlJONbU7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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