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[Gábor Hargitai <address@concealed>]

Hi

my Sympa installtion died and sent an error message:
Can't create new process in safefork

In the logs I can see this:
May 15 02:57:35 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:57:45 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:58:05 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:58:35 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
May 15 02:58:36 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:58:46 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:59:06 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:59:36 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
May 15 02:59:36 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory
May 15 02:59:46 kaa sympa[32169]: Can't create new process in safefork:
Cannot allocate memory

The machine was backuped with rdiff-backup, but it never caused a
problem. I can even compile big programs when Sympa runs happily.

Any suggestions what was the problem, or I should simply buy more RAM?

Thanks for the answers.

Gábor