On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | > Does "ps axf" tell you anything useful/unusual? I find it more helpful > | > than "aux" because it shows the parent/child tree. > | no, there is nothing unusual! > | ps axf | wc -l > | 426 > > Sorry, I meant without the "| wc -l"; actually to eyeball the whole listing > as a tree looking for weirdness. Though if 425 is normal for you, probably > this will not reveal anything. It looks fine, nothing weird, > | > Hmm, another thought. See what ulimit says about your process limit; > | > maybe F9 have some default limits that F8 did not. > | I increased open files in F8 to 32768, that is preserved here in F9 > | > | How do I check my process limit? this is ulimit -a output > [...] > | max user processes (-u) 1024 > > Well, that seems to be more than 425. Anyone else got any ideas? How do I increase this in /etc/security/limits.conf? I changed max files like this mark soft nofile 32768 mark hard nofile 32768 > Just for completeness, to eliminate the rror message being a lie, > can you reproduce the fork failure using strace, eg: > > strace -f -e trace=process 2>strace.out some-script-that-will-fail.sh > > and verify from the "strace.out" file that in fact it is fork() that > fails. i am not able to consistently reproduce this problem. sometimes this error comes, and sometimes it doesnt.. and there is no error messages /var/log/messages too!!! how could the error message be a lie? what scenario could this be!!! thanks a lot for all your help! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
