# [ACCT_FORK_LIMIT_EXCEEDED](https://apps.juniper.net/syslog-explorer/?msg=ACCT_FORK_LIMIT_EXCEEDED)

## SYSLOG Details
- **Message**: Unable to fork: too many child processes. file attempted is <variable>filename</variable>
- **Help**: Could not create child process because of limit
- **Description**: The accounting statistics process could not create a child process for transferring files, because adding another child would have made the number of children exceed the limit.
- **Type**: Internal: Internal log message
- **Severity**: notice
- **Cause**: -
- **Action**: -
- **Attributes**: filename
- **Facility**: LOG_PFE

## Found this message in the following releases:
- [Junos OS 24.2R1](https://apps.juniper.net/syslog-explorer/?msg=ACCT_FORK_LIMIT_EXCEEDED&sw=Junos%20OS&rel=24.2R1)
- [Junos OS 23.4R1](https://apps.juniper.net/syslog-explorer/?msg=ACCT_FORK_LIMIT_EXCEEDED&sw=Junos%20OS&rel=23.4R1)