Why are we getting messages like “expire_proc: expire thread create” or “fork Resource temporarily unavailable”?
Issue
- The user is seeing errors like “expire_proc: expire thread create” or “fork Resource temporarily unavailable”in log files or on user screens.
- One of the reasons for error messages like those and others can be a symptom of running out of configured pid’s on the system.
- It may be that the processes logging the error messages are not the ones causing the issue.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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