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

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Message-ID: <4834BE63.3060305@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 17:29:23 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	mark <markkicks@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads

mark wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>>>> I can send you some debug patches that will print out the specific
>>>> problem area.  Do you want to do that?  Can you rebuild and install
>>>> a new kernel?
>>> Is it possible to get this debug messages by turning on some flags?
>>> If not yes, pl. send debug patches. its a live box and  I will try to do it!
>>>
>>> This is my system / kernel info:
>>> uname -a
>>> Linux XXX 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008
>>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> I made a small patch to a vanilla kernel.org 2.6.25.3 kernel tree.
>> Hopefully it applies cleanly to that fc9 kernel source, but check/verify
>> that first before going any further.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the patch,
> This is kind of weird..  but there is no file  kernel/fork.c
> 
> [mark@...alhost 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686]$ find . -iname '*fork*' -print
> [mark@...alhost 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686]$ rpm -ql
> [mark@...alhost 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686]$ rpm -ql kernel-devel | grep fork
> [mark@...alhost 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686]$ pwd
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686

That's not a kernel source tree.

I'm no expert on fc nor on src.rpm's, but I think that you need to get
the fc kernel-2.6.25.3-18.src.rpm file (or something like that).

Or use a plain vanilla kernel.org 2.6.25.3 kernel tree.

-- 
~Randy
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