[gentoo-dev] Big problems, help

[gentoo-dev] Big problems, help

[Gregg]

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

All of my users are running into this after the system has been running
for a couple hours.  I have grsecurity's fork bomb protection on, its been
on for months, so that cant be the problem.  This just started this
morning.  Can anyone help me out here?  I am at a complete loss on
figuring this out.

Gregg

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Big problems, help

[Gregg]

Damn ulimit on nproc's.  Figured it all out.  Nevermind :)

Gregg

> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> All of my users are running into this after the system has been running
> for a couple hours.  I have grsecurity's fork bomb protection on, its
> been on for months, so that cant be the problem.  This just started this
> morning.  Can anyone help me out here?  I am at a complete loss on
> figuring this out.
>
> Gregg
>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Big problems, help

[pof]

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On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:29:42 -0500 (CDT)
"Gregg" <gregg@sc.am> wrote:

> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> All of my users are running into this after the system has been running
> for a couple hours.  I have grsecurity's fork bomb protection on, its
> been on for months, so that cant be the problem.  This just started this
> morning.  Can anyone help me out here?  I am at a complete loss on
> figuring this out.
> 
> Gregg
> 

The following may help:

Check your /etc/security/limits.conf file, you may have "nproc"
restrictions there.
If this isn't the problem try running "ulimit -a" to see which
restrictions your users have ('man ulimit' for more information).

Regards,
	Pau.
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