linux-kernel - Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads

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Message-ID: <873aob4civ.fsf@saeurebad.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 22:39:52 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	mark <markkicks@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads

Hi,

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> writes:

> On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:26:47 -0700 mark wrote:
>> have only 505 processes running
>> ps aux | wc -l
>> 505

[ quoting deleted for clarification ]

>> max user processes              (-u) 1024

> The only place that fork() returns EAGAIN is for number of
> processes being >= its limit.  Does this user already have >= 1024
> processes?

	Hannes
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