A node cannot fork new processes at all, and the culprit pod holds ninety thousand threads. Walk me through this failure.

Fork failures can reflect PID limits or memory allocation failure even when host RAM looks available. Find which ceiling broke, cap PIDs per cgroup so one team's leak costs one pod, and fix the unbounded spawn.

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