On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:50:59PM -0800, Monroe Williams wrote:
> 
> I'm seeing the following error:
> 
> fork: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> at seemingly random times.  It shows up coming from inetd in my logs and
> I've also seen it from the command line when trying to execute a command
> (ls, man, etc).
> 
> Any idea what could cause this?  I'm running a 1.5.2-macppc kernel with 512M
> of memory.  'top' shows that the machine has ample free memory.

I've the same problem on my vax; it's because the kernel is out of
KVM. You should report this to port-macppc.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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