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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo goes bouncy bouncy
Keywords: boom, sizzle, bounce
Message-ID: <18594@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 90 00:20:55 GMT
References: <18470@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Dec12.060416.12660@alphalpha.com>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Dec12.060416.12660@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>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

Because make was failing with a 'unable to fork process' message and the crash
code was: 00040010: "invalid segment count (OS/MST manager)" (not that I have
any idea what an invalid segment count is).

I just did a 'ps aux|wc' and got 39 processes. 

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu