bash fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:12:54PM -0700, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

> i am using nginx version 0.6.31, to server static files config files below.
> 
> now regularly when I login and I try to do something I get this error,
> and I am not able to start anything.. i have over 10GB of free RAM..
> how to fix this problem?
> 
> 
> 
> bash fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

This means that you have a lot of zombie processes:

ps ax|grep Z

and OS can not create a new process.


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Igor Sysoev
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