Why are we getting messages like “expire_proc: expire thread create” or “fork Resource temporarily unavailable”?

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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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