"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 20:33:56 +0200, Swoop wrote: > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time it had worked > > very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > > > Resource temporarily unavailable > > > Does anyone have a clue why this is happing ? > > Your system is running out of some of its resources (e.g. memory, > processes/threads). You could try running "strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log" on > the rsync command and studying the log file this generates.
I can'f find out which resources it run's out of. Here is something from the log file, but it aren't telling me much: avalon:~# strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log rsync > rsync.txt Process 5362 attached Process 5361 suspended . . . Process 5392 attached Process 5391 suspended sys_fork: tcb table full /usr/local/bin/rsync: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Process 5391 resumed Process 5392 detached . . . Process 5361 resumed Process 5362 detached Allan