[asterisk-dev] Trying to debug Fork failed: Cannot allocate memory

[Benny Amorsen]

Antonio Goméz Soto <antonio.gomez.soto at gmail.com> writes:

> I am getting out of memory errors, they are reported by the clone() system call,
> but only to asterisk. Other programs on the same system have no problems.
> top reports plenty of memory available.

Linux reports several classes of resource exhaustion errors as "out of
memory". This includes hitting the limits on number of threads, although
you are unlikely to hit that limit on a non-virtualized system. Perhaps
you're hitting the limit on open files instead?


/Benny