Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Andrei Ivanov <scorpio@arshes.dyndns.org>]

> Hi,
> 
> i seem to have a  problem with my Debian box.
> 
> When i try to login to it using ssh it accepts 
> the  login but then instead of the bash prompt 
> i get the following erromsg:
> 
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> This has never happened before and i didn't 
> anything in the  configuration since my last remote login.
> 
> What could be the problem?
> 
> imre

I've seen this before, and it has got something to do with too many
processes running on the system, eating up the file descriptor table. We
had a system in the office that had 50-some instances of a process
running, and were getting this message (I believe). Please correct me if
I'm wrong.
Andrei




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