Re^3: No child processes

What do you get for

$ getconf CHILD_MAX
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(or getconf -a, just in case...)

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Re^4: No child processes - system limit? by clinton (Priest) on Apr 01, 2010 at 14:39 UTC
for `getconf CHILD_MAX` i get: 27968 for `getconf -a` Read more... (13 kB) any of these mean anything to you?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: No child processes - system limit? by almut (Canon) on Apr 01, 2010 at 15:04 UTC
27968 seems large enough... (or do you really have that many processes?) On some older linux systems, this is set to 999, which is somewhat closer to potentially becoming a problem. (BTW, this value does not necessarily correspond to what is reported by `ulimit` — which is why I asked.) The other cause for a `fork` to fail is insufficient memory (presuming the "waiting for a non-existent child"-theory I mentioned above). So, is the memory usage actually close to the limit when the problem occurs? I'll take a closer look at the other conf settings to see if anything jumps out at me (not that I would know what every single one of them means... :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: No child processes - system limit? by clinton (Priest) on Apr 01, 2010 at 15:36 UTC
Nowhere near 27968 processes, and plenty of memory free. Avg load is around 3, so not terribly high either	[reply]