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

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Date:	Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:30:44 +0100
From:	Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@....co.uk>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@...ton.co.nz>, dhowells@...hat.com,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	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

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:45:39 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> Are you running as an unprivileged user?  If so, this may be the point that's
> biting you.  Can you try applying the attached patch to find more information?
[snip]
I'm also experiencing this on an X86_64 system as an unprivileged user.

With your patch applied I get the following repeated several times
during the boot, but with no apparent ill effects:

[   31.033195] copy_process() = -513 

When the fork call starts to fail after a few minutes the following is logged:

[  223.039938] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000)
[  223.044744] copy_process() = -11
[  226.660319] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000)
[  226.664166] copy_process() = -11

HTH.
Cheers,
GRant
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