Swoop wrote: > > "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
looks to me like it cannot spawn anymore processes. if you can run 'top' in another window/terminal while you run this to see how many processes are going on the machine. for reference a typical machine will have anywhere from 50-80 processes. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
