Why does OS X Mavericks (10.9) freeze spontaneously?

Question

macOS

Hello, for the fourth day I have been observing a strange garbage - the axis freezes during operation (sometimes after waking up from sleep) completely. That is, new processes are not forked, only those that are already in operation work. When you try to enter any command in the terminal (ps ax, htop) says:

-fork: resource temporarily unavailable

Saves only the laptop's hard reset (Air).
UPD: just recently I was tinkering with launchctl to autostart php-fpm and redis, could this be related somehow?

Answer 1

The limit of the number of processes has been exhausted

Answer 2

Excuse me, but why keep these processes constantly loaded into memory?

Answer 3

I have a similar problem. If immediately after going to sleep try to return the mac to the active state, the screen flashes and stops responding. Solved by a forced reboot. With this and your problem in those. Apple support I think.