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Since yesterday, my Linux (Fedora 20) randomly kills processes for no reason at all (at least from my point of view), and the bugs reports say that all these processes are "killed by SIGTRAP". It happens with evolution, gls, the weather app, Google Chrome, and so on ...

Also, when trying to run a Scala Play Framework application, I get the error:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

I stuck with this, it makes my Linux partition totally unusable!

Does anyone have an idea about what causes this?

Braiam
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Zarkus13
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It seems that by increasing the max number of allowed processes by user to 2048 worked for me, following this : http://miyurudw.blogspot.fr/2012/06/javalangoutofmemoryerror-unable-to.html

Zarkus13
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You can look at your memory using top and see if you are really out of memory (e.g. because swap was not enables) or not.

If you have enough memory, this might indicate a memory corruption causing the programs to execute some bad instructions. If this persists after a reboot, you should run a memory checker to make sure you don't have permanently faulty memory.

Anthon
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  • Thanks for your answer ! I checked with top but I had something like 8 Go of memory free.

    Also, I have a Windows partition that works well, so I don't thing memory has a problem, but I will perform a memcheck, in case it is connected.

     – Zarkus13 May 04 '14 at 15:55