Proc: Text table is full.

[James W. Meritt]

My system has a number of things that go on automatically (a number of
periodic entries in the crontab, a mail sorter,....).  Things go real
nicely under a normal load.  But when the system starts getting REAL busy,
they have a tendency overflow the proc table.  I would like some process
that can check to see how busy the system is and "shut off" (rename files
that trigger) the processes.  Any suggestions?

    jwm at sun4.jhuapl.edu or jwm at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu or meritt%aplvm.BITNET