Re: resource leak in linux emulation?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 02:00:37PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> On a NetBSD/amd64 6.1_STABLE system, I have a perl script that 
> effectively calls /usr/pkg/java/sun-7/bin/javac twice.  It doesn't 
> really matter what java file its compiling.
> If I call this script in an infinite loop, after an hour or so the 
> javac's start failing with memory errors:
> 
>   # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to 
> continue.
>   # Cannot create GC thread. Out of system resources.
> 
> and after some more time the perl fails to fork (to exec the second 
> javac)
> 
>    23766      1 perl     CALL  fork
>    23766      1 perl     RET   fork -1 errno 35 Resource temporarily 
> unavailable
> 
> Mar 27 11:43:24 test /netbsd: proc: table is full - increase 
> kern.maxproc or NPROC
> 
> But all through this top et al tell me there are plenty of processes 
> and memory

I think this has been seen before.
But I can't remember the resolution.

        David

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