Re: kernel messages: fork

guanche (guanche@furia.valse.org)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:21:57 -0800 (GMT-0800)

I'm not Linus though ;-)
fork () is a system call that creates a process (child) with the same
process information as the father except the pid, for "concurrent"
execution.
(threads are better, since it doesn't copy a lot of such info)
In your case, it looks like it the kernel can't spawn such a process.

How to fix it is another issue ,that I'm sure somebody in here will
help you out.

Regards,
Luis
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On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote:

>
> I'm running kernel 2.0.25 kernel in the next configuration:
>
> Pentium Processor 100Mhz
> 32Mg Ram
> 2 SCSI Disks.
>
> My swap partition is /dev/sda1 ; Recently I had too many errors when
> trying to execute any command ;
>
> Syslog says :
> Nov 23 10:40:09 olafo kernel: swap_duplicate: trying to duplicate unused
> page
> Nov 23 10:40:22 olafo last message repeated 55 times
> Nov 23 10:43:23 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
> Nov 23 10:43:31 olafo last message repeated 4 times
> Nov 23 10:43:31 olafo sendmail[30809]: KAA30809: SYSERR(root): dowork:
> cannot f$
> Nov 23 10:43:36 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
> Nov 23 10:43:41 olafo sendmail[30005]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL:
> cannot$
> Nov 23 10:43:45 olafo sendmail[20598]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
> cannot fo$
> Nov 23 10:44:26 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
> Nov 23 10:44:33 olafo sendmail[20598]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): daemon:
> cannot fo$
> Nov 23 10:44:48 olafo inetd[64]: fork: Try again
> Nov 23 10:45:05 olafo last message repeated 2 times
>
>
>
> Linus can u explain me please what means "fork" ?
>
> Gustavo
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