Re: Re: what is "unable to fork" email err message means? (fwd)

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma rearranged electrons thusly:

> Yahoo! runs FreeBSD and the default install sends out an email each day
> with the daily activity. Any competent sys admin should notice it and
> take corrective action. I'd expect Yahoo! to have more advanced monitoring
> capabilities than the basic FreeBSD.
 
They do, as a matter of fact.

> It may just be that the box is genuinely out of juice and Yahoo! is not
> able to spend enough money on hardware to handle the load given their
> stock price ? 

They are not that near the blanket as you think, right now :)  That seems to
be a temp problem, right now.  Mail delivery to yahoo is going on quite ok
from what I can see.

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