Archived Messages for FARM_SUPPORT_1997@cebaf.gov: Re: couldn't fork child process

Re: couldn't fork child process

Andy Kowalski (kowalski@CEBAF.GOV)
Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:22:54 -0500

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This is not a quota or disk space problem. This usually occurs when the system
does not have enough memory/swap space left to reserve for your process.
My guess is that there were other users on the system that were running
processes that were using all of the system's memory/swap. You can
run "top" to check the system load and the top running processes. Both machines
currently seem pretty quiet, so they should be able to run your program now.

Andy Kowalski

Richard Thompson wrote:

> When I try to run on ifarms1 I get:
>
> couldn't fork child process: Not enough space
>
> I'm running from /scratch, and I don't think it's a disk quota problem.
> Funny though "quota -v" doesn't return anything:
>
> jlabs2> quota -v
> Disk quotas for richardt (uid 2433):
> Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit
> timeleft
> jlabs2>
>
> When I run the same program from jlabs2, this error does not occur.
>
> \ R A Thompson /
> / Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Pittsburgh \
> \ Pittsburgh, PA 15260 /
> / richardt@cebaf.gov 757-269-7475 \

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