[indiana-discuss] "Cannot fork a child process"

Amit Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 22:06:23 PDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
<Sivakumar.Shanmugasundaram at sun.com> wrote:
> Out of disk space (could be affecting your swap) or it could be you are
> running out of file descriptors.
> For the 1st, clean up some disk space and for the 2nd, play with 'ulimit'

I got enought disk space. 'ulimit' is what I have to hook into.!

Thanks,
Amit
>
> -Siva
>
>
> On 03/26/09 10:22, Amit Saha wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am running OSol 8.11 b101, I am getting this error quite often-
>> Cannot Fork child process- not enough space. I am guessing its this
>> place in the code:
>>
>> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/lp/cmd/lpsched/lpsched.c
>> line no. 364.
>>
>> What is the probable reason?
>>
>> -Amit
>>
>>
>



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