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OL 7 - Unable To Perform any OS Related Operations "/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" (Doc ID 2662952.1)

Last updated on MAY 06, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Not able to perform any OS related operations on OL7 servers, following errors block command execution.

$ ps -ef
/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/procps: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable


Additionally top command will report high load average even without any application running.

Changes

 

Cause

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