In article <1992Mar10.153051.15981@ux.acs.umn.edu>, csn0140@ux.acs.umn.edu (tim) writes:
|> can anyone tell me what exactly causes the error messages: fork: try
|> again, and fork: no more processes ? they seem to happen     rather
|> randomly after the system has been running for a while (more than an
|> hour). sometimes if i exit my current shell and start a new one it
|> will let me do stuff for a little while but eventually it won't let me
|> do anything so  i exec sync and reboot. then it is okay again for a
|> little while. has anyone else had this happen, or know what can be
|> done to fix it ? i'm still running 0.12.


at a guess, you are probably running vixie cron or something similar which
attempts to kill it's forked processes but (i believe from a MUCH earlier
posting) the SIGNAL to kill the child process isn't interperted or generated
correctly and the child stops but doesn't release itself from the process
table. (A quick check seems to show that this is true in 0.95 too 8( )

Phil
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