Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

To: Alex Withers <awithers@gonzaga.edu>, <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
From: Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:48:21 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 200209081848.22078.gtdev@spearhead.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0209080816290.23378-100000@barney.gonzaga.edu>
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.33.0209080816290.23378-100000@barney.gonzaga.edu>

On Sunday 08 September 2002 17:33, Alex Withers wrote:
> Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine.  After
> logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble
> but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds
> before spitting out the message: "bash: fork: Resource temporarily
> unavailable".

We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've got a 
huge quantity of (defunct) processes.

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