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

From: David Howells
Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 08:53:28 EST


Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > 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"

I modified your config slightly so that it'd run on my testbox (x86_64
unfortunately), but that survived LTP and seemed to work okay. I'll have to
snag an i386 installation from somewhere, unless James can do me a favour and
test it on his, if he has one.

Can you try this please:

cat /proc/slabinfo | cut -d: -f1 | sort -k 2 -n

Just to check to see if there's a memory leak.

Interestingly, I notice that SLUB's /proc/slabinfo appears to be broken. It's
missing a number of slab caches from the list.

David
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