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Re: fork: resource temporarily unavailable



According to Joel Konkle-Parker,
> Whenever I run more than one program at a time, I get the following 
> error in bash:
> 
> --
> fork: resource temporarily unavailable
> --
> 
> The effect is that if I have mozilla running, I have to close it to open 
> a shell, which I have to close to open gedit, et c.
> 
> What's going on?

process table full?  

you might capture the output of 'ps aux' on a regular basis so
that you can examine what was happending just before the
issue the next time it happens.



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