Process creation failed on VMware virtual machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Customer's system which ran on VMWare struggled from creating new process.

  • They built this system by cloning other existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

  • Customer tried to do a stress test on this system by creating huge amount of thread rapidly.

  • At some point when customer felt system hang up, customer invoked manual crash.

Environment

  • OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 6 (2.4.21-50.ELsmp)
  • Virtualization: VMWare (version unknwon)

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