On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:45:39 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html