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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:55:29 +0200
To: Debian User Mailinglist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

Hello!

I got 1Gig ram and 2.5 Gig swap, I often get an error stating something
like fork: resource temporarily unavailable.
What is causing that?

bash-3.00$ df
bash: fork: Resursen tillfälligt otillgänglig
bash-3.00$ df
bash: fork: Resursen tillfälligt otillgänglig
bash-3.00$ ls
bash: fork: Resursen tillfälligt otillgänglig
bash-3.00$ ls
bash: fork: Resursen tillfälligt otillgänglig
bash-3.00$

Swedish locale but you can guess what it says.
Ideas?
/nisse

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