I'd like to thank everyone who responded -- below was the best and to
the point. Thanks!
Jon
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Subject: Re: fork/procudp: task_create failed
Author: mclaughl_at_nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov at INTERNET
Date: 9/10/96 1:38 PM
Jon,
The system couldn't fork new processes because:
- The max process limit was reached - for this, increase
the maxusers vaiable in /sys/conf/SYSNAME. The default
is 32. Increase to 64 or 128.
- A user's max process limit was reached - this happened
to us because a busy webserver wanted more than 64 process
default limit - for this increase maxuproc in /etc/sysconfigtab
with the following lines and reboot -
-> proc:
-> max-proc-per-user=128
Hope this helps,
Steve Mc
Original Question:
> Hi --
>
> On one of our Alpha 2100/275, DU 3.2c, we get the following error:
>
> Sep 10 11:03:27 maindec vmunix: fork/procdup: task_create failed.
> Code:0x11
>
> and a few messages after that saying the last message was repeated
> 1,492 then 28, then 223 times...
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