Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 13:23:34 EST


On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Beginning with next-20080808 after letting the system run for 5 minutes
> or so, I get an error from the fork call, e.g.:
>
> "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"
>
> Doing an "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" I was able to get an vmcore dump
> of the running kernel using the kdump mechanism.
>
> what should i do next?

The only commits that touched kernel/fork.c between next-20080807 and
next-20080808 are David's CRED patches.

David, can you look at this?

> with kind regards
> thomas

cu
Adrian

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