The reason fork() fails

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Issue

  • Customer had experience of process creation failure.
  • 'threads-max' has the value of 14366 and system has very less processes compare to that value.

  • Customer wants to know why process creation failed even though has enough number of pid's are available.

  • They also wants to know whether 'threads-max' consider process only or consider threads also.

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