Bug#628724: chromium: Browser prevents urther creation of processes

[Jonathan Nieder]

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Looking at fork(2), it seems that this can happen due to low-memory
> conditions or the "ulimit -u" (ULIMIT_NPROC) limit.
>
> Is memory tight?  Do you have a large number of processes open?  What
> version of the Flash plugin do you use?  Is it possible to reproduce
> this with the Flash plugin disabled (for example, using gnash in place
> of flash)?

Ah, another idea: can you see a lot of zombie processes if you run
"top" before this happens?  (Using the 'u' command can restrict the
list to programs running as you, using 'R' can show inactive processes
at the top of the list, and 'c' shows the full command lines.)