Friday, January 16, 2009

vfork failed

The error message 'vfork failed' means that a process could not be started.

Possible reasons:
- Max number of processes configured in the kernel exceeded
- Out of virtual memory which is caused by being out of swap space

In my case (envs: Solaris 8), we cannot do anything else when this error occurs. So I have no option but to run command "exec reboot"

*scary*

Source:
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1996/1906.html
+another one but I forgot the url

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