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From: hurf@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Hurf Sheldon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: timeout table overflow
Message-ID: <1010@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 11:18:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1010
Posted: Fri Sep 12 11:18:09 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 09:48:27 EDT
Reply-To: hurf@batcomputer.UUCP (Hurf Sheldon)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: timeout table panic crash


	I have several users who have been using ^Z to stop & restart
	emacs jobs - they are not the best housekeepers & this has
	resulted in a system crash "panic: timeout table overflow"
	
	This irritates me for two reasons -
	1: I don't think it should be that easy to crash the system
		(its embarrasing, too - like when our 11/60 rolled
		over dead because somebody put a book down on a keyboard)

	2: Educating an ever growing group of ever less knowledgeable
           users about something like this is a good way to go pre-
	   maturely bald (or postmaturely in my case)
	
	Enough fun - how can I increase the table size and is there a 
	way already devised for flushing the table periodically?

	Please lets refrain from flaming about novices & emacs.

     Hurf Sheldon			Arpa.css: Hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu
     Lab of Plasma Studies	
     369 Upson Hall			phone: 607 255 7267
     Cornell University
     Ithaca, N.Y. 14853