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Subject: Re: system problem
Message-ID: <3517@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 17:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 17:16:00 1983
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From:  Dennis Rockwell 

Just like it says, you are running out of proc table slots (a proc
table slot is required for each process in the system).  There are two
possibilities here:  1) you may be running a kernel that isn't
configured for enough users; you should increase the "maxusers"
parameter in your configuration file.  2) you have a process which is
forking uncontrollably.  In this case, all you have to do is track it
down and stop it (preferably at the source; usually a student either
playing with multi-processing or trying to crash the system).  The very
last proc table slot is reserved for root;  log in as root and run ps
to find the culprit.