Subject: [ILUG] Re: error message "failure forking resou

[John P . Looney]

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Pat.Doyle at eaglestar.ie mentioned:
> 
> "Kate"
> 
> Tried to find references to this but failed. Do you know where this is 
> documented?
> 
> TIA.
> Pat.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:32:00PM +0100, Pat.Doyle at eaglestar.ie mentioned:
> >      Hi,
> >      Anybody seen this message before?
> 
>  Yup. Generally means that you don't have enough free memory, or you have
> too many processes started. I think 2.2 doesn't have a process limit, and
> that 2.0.x could have it's max proc number changed in /proc somewhere.
> 
>  Anyone remember better than me ?

 Well, just looking in:
     /usr/src/linux/include/asm/resource.h gave me a table of:

#define RLIMIT_CPU  0       /* CPU time in ms */
#define RLIMIT_FSIZE    1       /* Maximum filesize */
#define RLIMIT_DATA 2       /* max data size */
#define RLIMIT_STACK    3       /* max stack size */
#define RLIMIT_CORE 4       /* max core file size */
#define RLIMIT_RSS  5       /* max resident set size */
#define RLIMIT_NPROC    6       /* max number of processes */
#define RLIMIT_NOFILE   7       /* max number of open files */
#define RLIMIT_MEMLOCK  8       /* max locked-in-memory address space */
#define RLIMIT_AS   9       /* address space limit */

#define RLIM_NLIMITS    10

#ifdef __KERNEL__

#define INIT_RLIMITS                    \
{                           \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    {      _STK_LIM, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    {             0, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    {             0,             0 },       \
    {      INR_OPEN,     INR_OPEN  },       \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
    { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY },       \
}

 OK, so this is a 2.3.x kernel, but does this mean that for most stuff,
Linux doesn't have limits anymore. This rocks!

Kate

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