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

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Message-ID: <14476.1218286327@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:52:07 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de> 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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