Running out of something

Tim Potter tpot at linuxcare.com.au
Fri Dec 1 06:01:09 GMT 2000


David DeLauro writes:

> and if I try to do simple things like "ls" I get the following error.
> ls: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> I'm running slackware 7.1 and when I look at /proc/meminfo I have plenty
> of free memory (swap and ram) and if I do a cat on some of the files in
> /proc/sys/fs  I get the following:

Sounds like you are either running out of processes or out of
memory.  Under Linux 2.2 you are by default limited to 512
processes unless you recompile your kernel to support more, up
to a maximum of 4092 +/- a bit.


Tim.





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