Resource temporarily unavailable

If you see a message like following while working on centos system, that means the particular user you are using has exceeded the open process limit.


bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable


So you need to increase it. Here is the way...

Login as root. Go to "limits.conf" file.

> vi /etc/security/limits.conf

Set a higher number of "nproc" value.
Add these two lines.

user          soft    nproc     65550
user          hard    nproc     65555

user - replace with your username

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