Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I've e Debian 2.0 frozen host with X windows and fvwm95.
> Now when I run a program and some windows are opened often I'm
> obtainig:
> xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
> or when I attempting to run xterm:
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> and so on...
> when the problem appear persist also with normal tty.
>
> With few windows the problem don't exist.
>
It looks as though your system runs out of pid's (unlikely), or you hit
your maximum number of processes (not impossible). What does ulimit -a
say about your max user processes? How many processes are running?
(try top, or `ps ax').
ps ax | wc -l
Eric
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