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

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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:21:41 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

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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