re: pbulk using tmpfs

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> I'm fairly sure that fork work fail (cleanly) for 'lack of physical
> memory' or 'lack of KVA', at least not without the world exploding
> at the same time. So I'd guess you are just hitting the 'ulimit -p'
> soft limit on the number of processes.

FYI: fork() hangs if there is not enough KVA, in particular if
KVA is so fragmented that a 256KiB allocation isn't possible.

(HI TAYLOR :-)


.mrg.