Edd Barrett wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> Yesterday my workstation started doing this:

> eddlocal@dec170:eddlocal> ifconfig

> ksh: cannot fork - try again

>

> It usually only lasts a couple of minutes, but during which time the

> machine is pretty useless.

>

>   

you sure you've not got your maximum number of processes for your login

class? i routinely see this error on my workstations when i've got lots

of stuff open. the proper solution is to bump up the login.conf values

for your login class, not sure if this can be fixed sans complete logout

and relogin.
if it's lasting a couple minutes then maybe some processes are being

created and destroyed shortly thereafter.
cheers,

jake
> Top tells me that I have >500MB of RAM free, and that the OS has not

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> even started swapping.

>

> I am going to try upgrading my snapshot to see if that fixes this, but

> I thought I should report it incase.

>

> OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #2: Tue Sep 11 14:16:04 BST 2007

>     root@dec170:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

> cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz

> cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR

> real mem  = 1055678464 (1006MB)

> avail mem = 1013071872 (966MB)

> mainbus0 at root

> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/05/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @

> 0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xfbe40 (76 entries)

> bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version "BF86510A.86A.0058.P15.0404050012"

> date 04/05/2004

> bios0: Intel Corporation D865GLC

> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2

> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown

> apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1

> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000

> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf3d00/224 (12 entries)

> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x00)

> pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus

> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa200! 0xca800/0x1000 0xcb800/0x1000

> cpu0 at mainbus0

> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)

> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-I/0-1" rev 0x02

> vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82865G Video" rev 0x02: aperture

> at 0xf0000000, size 0x8000000

> wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)

> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)

> ppb0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-CSA" rev 0x02

> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1

> em0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000CT (82547EI)" rev 0x00:

> irq 10, address 00:0c:f1:f5:13:41

> uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11

> uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 5

> uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 10

> uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11

> ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB2" rev 0x02: irq 9

> usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0

> uhub0 at usb0: "Intel EHCI root hub", rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1

> ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xc2

> pci2 at ppb1 bus 2

> ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02:

> 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz

> pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02:

> DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to

> compatibility

> pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)

> pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)

> pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801EB SATA" rev 0x02: DMA,

> channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI

> pciide1: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt

> wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0:

> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors

> wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5

> ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02: irq 3

> iic0 at ichiic0

> adt0 at iic0 addr 0x2e: emc6d100 rev 0x65

> auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801EB/ER AC97" rev 0x02: irq

> 3, ICH5 AC97

> ac97: codec id 0x41445375 (Analog Devices AD1985)

> ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo

> audio0 at auich0

> usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0

> uhub1 at usb1: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1

> usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0

> uhub2 at usb2: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1

> usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0

> uhub3 at usb3: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1

> usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0

> uhub4 at usb4: "Intel UHCI root hub", rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1

> isa0 at ichpcib0

> isadma0 at isa0

> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5

> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)

> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot

> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0

> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61

> midi0 at pcppi0:

> spkr0 at pcppi0

> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7

> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16

> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo

> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2

> biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef

> pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled

> mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support

> uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0

> uhidev0: "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Mouse", rev 1.00/1.02, addr 2, iclass 3/1

> ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons

> wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0

> uhidev1 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0

> uhidev1: "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Keyboard", rev 1.00/1.01, addr 3, iclass 3/1

> ukbd0 at uhidev1: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes, layout 32

> wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1

> wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0

> dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80

> root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b

> WARNING: / was not properly unmounted

> auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 47998 Hz, will use 48000 Hz