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

[Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram]

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'

-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
>
>