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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Nicolas,

Nicholas Bamber wrote:

> When I run "chromium http://www.israelnationalnews.com" I get the
> message "The following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash" in
> chromium itself.
>
> Trying to launch a new xterm gives the error:
> "Could not launch 'Terminal' \n Failed to fork (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)".
>
> Trying to run "free" in an existing terminal gives: "Failed to fork
> (Resource temporarily unavailable)".
>
> As soon as I close chromium it returns to normal. 

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)?

Thanks for reporting,
Jonathan