On 19May2008 19:47, mark <markkicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > | > 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 I'm not sure, and I don't have a fedora system to hand at present. | > 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.. But is it often enough that you could run a script by hand a few times and expect to get it? | and there is no error messages | /var/log/messages too!!! It's not the kind of thing you expect in there, though if something were wrong with the system from its own point of view you might. | how could the error message be a lie? what scenario could this be!!! Basicly, if the app lies to you. It is unlikely. I'm imagining an app calling a library routine the involves a fork() and maybe some other stuff, then if the library routine fails then the app says "no more processes", even though there might be a few different causes for the library routine to fail. A bit like IE often suggests that maybe you're not connected to the interweb if the slighted thing goes wrong. It's unlikely, as I say. But an strace as described above, when things fail, should unambiguously show a fork() call with a distinctive error code. It avoids relying on the app's own error message for verification. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ I have always been a welly man myself. They are superb in wet grass, let alone lagoons of pig shit. - Julian Macassey -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
