Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ubvax!vsi1!zorch!tegan!foobar From: foobar@tegan.UUCP (John Fruetel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Too many processes? Keywords: process, uucp Message-ID: <121@tegan.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 18:53:48 GMT Organization: At home in Turlock Calif. Lines: 22 I've been having a problem with tegan here for about a week, and it's starting to really baffle me. I get my news feed (via PC Pursuit) from a box in San Jose, CA. This has worked fine for quite some time, although PC pursuit is usually pretty busy in San Jose. Because PC Pursuit is generally pretty busy, I have tegan call it's buddy zorch every ten minutes from 11:00 PM through 4:00 AM. Placing this many calls generally means that I can get in 4 or 5 times a night. But something weird happened about a week ago. I installed a second hard drive in tegan for /usr/spool. The installation and configuration was no problem, but tegan just isn't the same. While receiving news, my system says that it runs out of processes! When I do a ps -ea (if I can), there always seems to be a moderate number of tasks (like 10). The problem seems to occur while uncompressing one batch while receiving another. What's going on? Before I had the second drive, everything worked just great! -- John Fruetel {uunet, pyramid, ames}!zorch!tegan!foobar In my spare bedroom ihnp4!lll-crg!csustan!koko!tegan!foobar here in Turlock (209) 632-8027 (voice)