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Re: fork. system login failure
- To: Stiven Andre <stiven_a(at-nospam)hotmail.com>
- Subject: Re: fork. system login failure
- From: mulix <mulix(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:03:23 +0200 (IST)
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Stiven Andre wrote:
> I have some strange probelm.
> I have server running rh7.2 that works 24hours a day and after adding some
> cron jobs I always recieve the following:
>
> When the server runs about 10-20 hours I recieve an error "sh: fork Resource
> temporary unavilable" for the first 3-4 commands I enter.
> after that it goes normaly.
> But if I will leave server alone for 40-50 hours I can't even login (Using
> the console not remotly). When I type username and pass it logs me in for
> 2-3 secs after that writes something (not enough time too see what) and logs
> me out. The server still functionaling normaly all the services wotk as it
> should but I can't login.
sounds to me like your cron jobs are creating processes which are then
left hanging around, causing later forks to fail. the is a limit on the
number of processes a system can have.
what do your cron jobs do?
--
mulix
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