FS#29417 - zsh: fork failed to allocate memory

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 00:47 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 18:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After about an hour and a half since boot, my computer locks up and just says

zsh: fork failed to allocate memory

I have tried systemd and sysvinit, also tried stopping dbus and wicd
currently, I am trying to downgrade nvidia from 295-40 to 295-33
i haven't been able to find anything in the logs I have looked in but
I will attach dmesg and Xorg and everything.log

I can upload anything else that might be helpful too

Steps to reproduce:
boot
wait 2 hours and it crashes
   Xorg.0.log (31 KiB)
   dmesg.log (46.2 KiB)
   everything.log (158.8 KiB)
   errors.log (1.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Friday, 13 April 2012, 18:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Aren't fork bombs fun?
Comment by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 03:37 GMT
I think I solved this, there was a problem with an anacron script that was in /etc/cron.hourly, it was repeatedly spawning bash sessions,
but it has been in there for a long time, so I am not sure what caused the problem, but I think it is ok to close this

in a bit, I am going to restart with crond still on and see if it still crashes within the hour
   0anacron (0.4 KiB)

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