on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache > and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. > By two months or so, they worked ok. From a week ago or so, > one machine begin to fail with the following message at syslog. > > Jan 23 13:42:01 host /usr/sbin/cron[187]: (CRON) error (can't fork) > > I can ping it, but nothing more. > Anyone has any help?
There are a number of conditions which can prevent a system from forking, including out of memory, out of process-table-entries, out of file handles, etc. Probably want to try booting the system or getting local access to it to see what's up. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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