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Cannot fork(): Not enough space

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:08 pm
by cindy_walker
The last time we reindexed, Webinator found 110,000 documents instead of the expected 165,000. It generated these errors:

Creating spell-checker dictionaries...Could not create aspell dictionary 1: Cannot fork(): Not enough space
Could not create aspell dictionary 2: Cannot fork(): Not enough space

Why would we be seeing this message when Webinator runs in a space with 288 GB free and the database takes 4.4 GB? /usr/local/morph3 is a symbolic link to another directory. Where else does Webinator look for space where it's not finding it? Or does this refer to memory?

We're using Enterprise Webinator 5 for Solaris.

Cannot fork(): Not enough space

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:54 pm
by mark
"fork"ing is creating a new process. So the space it was out of was memory or process slots in the OS.