Too many processes?

[John Fruetel]

>From article <1086 at bellboy.UUCP>, by hack at bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney):
> You should be able to see the number of processes your
> system is configured with in the file /usr/include/sys/kdef.h
> 
> "MAXUP" is the max number of processes per user.
> "NPROC" is the max number of processes total.

Hmm.... That file ain't on my system.  I'm running uport V/AT.  

What usually happens (since I added my second disk drive) is that cron
sends me nasty letters when it wants to run some simple litte thing saying
that fork failed -- too may processes.

What also happens quite a bit is when I check my computer out in the morning,
(I generally leave root signed on all the time) I'll type "ls" or some other 
simple little command and it'll say "no more processes."  What seems to be
happening (according to the logs) is that uuxqt and rnews get "stuck" 
because they can't find open process slots.  If I sign off of root,
that opens up one slot and uuxqt/rnews goes about it's merry way uncompressing
news.  Like I said, all this began happening when I installed my second
drive.  What's going on?

Incidentally, if it's meaningful, I have an AT clone with only 1 meg (I'd like
more, but have you priced memory recently?!?) one 40 meg miniscribe and a 20
meg seagate.
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