On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? yes it is really often!! am almost restarting my box every now and then!! > | 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. I think you were right!! My nginx web server fails to start because of this: setuid(500) failed (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) the user ID is mark more /etc/passwd | grep mark mark:x:500:500::/home/mark:/bin/bash and I changed max number of processes to unlimited and i still get this error!!! ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 137216 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 32768 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited thanks a lot for all inputs! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
