Re: Cannot vfork (Resource temporarily unavailable)

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 11:15:36AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> I tried this and I get the same failure.
> I also get this on the console:
> 
> proc: table is full - increase kern.maxproc or NPROC
> 
> do you get that message too?

Yes - sorry - should have looked in /var/log/messages...

> if so, this is different from the out-of-swap thing.

(it happened to me again yesterday - but it is so rare, and doesn't
leave clues behind...)
 
> it looks like a fork-bomb bug in one of the pkgsrc wrapper scripts.

Thanks,

Patrick