On Jul 20, 2007, at 23:28 , William Stein wrote:

>
> On 7/20/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a continuing problem building SAGE on Mac OS X/PowerPC.  The
>> problem always seems to boil down to this kind of error:
>>
>>     fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> Check your install log to see if that is the problem.  I don't see
>> this on my (Core 2 Duo) laptop because I don't have half the junk
>> running there that I do on the PowerMac.
>>
>> William: let me know if you see this specific problem on Zippo.
>
> I do not have this problem on zippo, and haven't seen that sort of  
> problem
> in a very long time.  I used to get it all the time on my laptop when
> doing tons of devel work (especially before writing sage-cleaner), but
> got rid of it by changing some system config file to increase the  
> number
> of processes one is allowed per user (OSX defaults to 100, which is
> too small).  I didn't have this problem at all with zippo or my other
> test machine.

I did not think this would be the problem in your case, since you are  
logged in remotely; it was worth asking, though.

Justin

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Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income
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Experience is what you get
   when you don't get what you want.
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