Subject: Re: fork() freeze the system
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/2004 08:01:39
In article <20040610151640.5fdf7f08.grifo3000@interfree.it>,
	grifo <grifo3000@interfree.it> writes:
> well, we were wondering why if launched from tty's the operating
> systems blocks the program saying: "proc table is full, please 
> increase kern.maxproc", while when run from XFree86 it freeze
> the system and need to be rebooted "phisically".

Are you sure that the system frooze? It might have been only the X11 server
which didn't respond any more. Did you try to "ping" the system from
a remote system?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/