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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo goes bouncy bouncy
Keywords: boom, sizzle, bounce
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.060416.12660@alphalpha.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 06:04:16 GMT
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In article <18470@hydra.gatech.EDU> tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) writes:
>I always happens shortly after I start a 'make' in an xterm. I suspect that the
>machine is running out of process table, but that's just a guess. This is

Why is it a guess?  What does a "ps" show?  If you are getting anywhere
past 40 then watch out, you're too close to the top.  I used to crash
regularly due to running sendmail and a mailing list (which reinvoked
sendmail from a perl script).  I finally switched to batching mail,
which cut down on my problems considerably.

Running out of disk space is another option, X and Emacs can take
up a fair amount.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.