Re: exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork -> reboot
In article <cistron.8767dcwv8p.fsf@quasar.vvf.fi>,
Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> wrote:
>Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I
>have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new
>processes can't have been started. "vfork: resource temporarily
>unavailable" is what my shell (zsh) says. If, with echo `<
>file`, I examine the contents of /proc filesystem, I see _many_
>cron processes. Too many, it seems. I don't think the process
>count is hitting kernel's default limit of 512 processes (IIRC).
Did you install a new sysklogd as well? It has known problems -
install at least -30 and CERTAINLY NOT -28 or -29 !
Mike.
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