Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable (ssh)
Yes,
I got the same message with our server. I had to kill all the ssh sessions
that "didn't exist".
I also had a problem with ssh which asked me to create more pttys, which I
did and this also alleviated the problem....not sure why ssh (I think v 1.3)
does this (ie creates phantom processes when the user had already logged
out)
Rob...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Ivanov" <scorpio@arshes.dyndns.org>
To: "Imre Vida" <vida@uni-freiburg.de>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 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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