-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Egli wrote:
>There's been a couple of times lately that this has happened. I'm lost as to >the cause. > >All connections to the outside world will stop. So I go over to the console, >and load up the local login I keep (root is always logged in via tty2). I do >a netstat to see if something is hitting me. But instead of getting the >netstat result I get a message saying something to the tune of "fork: >resource unavbailable". This occurs for ANYTHING, REGARDLESS OF IF IT FORKS. >i.e. ls will return this. ps will return it, ANYTHING. I cannot even do a >clean reboot. Only solution is to cold boot and let it fsck the drives. THEN >all is well. Something's running you out of resources (as if you couldn't guess). 'ls' and 'ps' are external commands, so yes, they require another process. 'echo' is a builtin'; you'll notice that one still works at times like that. (Fat lotta good that will do.) - - Try taking a snapshot of your CPU load every couple of minutes and dump it to a file. That might leave a clue after a crash. - - If you can get a console window open, try 'exec reboot' when that happens. That has a fair chance of getting you a clean shutdown when you can't fork a process. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPDOXb79BpdPKTBGtEQIE5wCgiM3pRlE1xLJBhLBwV9ol/LT7ixsAn1Nm AStYf59DKPiiKLJRYWBRlmvm =ccDV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
