Hello Karl Ferguson! }Package: procps }Version: 0.97-4
}I was running top on my system tonight and it showed the stats of 124 }processes etc etc. Then on the next "view" 5 seconds later it spits out: } }top: Help! Too many processes } }Then it exits, and wont let me run it until it's below 130ish - is this what }it's meant to do? Otherwise killing processes that run away when using over }120 odd processes would be murder going through a normal ps list. As I remember this is a strange behaviour. It is based in two things: a) newer kernel have a process limit of 256, if I'm correct. (I don't remember where this is defined) b) Older kernel only have a limit of 130 or so. A `top' that was compiled on such a system will only allow you to have that much processes. In former times this was a trick to test the distribution. You can easily check wether the maintainer made the work to compile this himself or to copy it from whereever. I'm a bit confused if this beat Debian, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / +49-441-777884 * Login&Passwd: nuucp * Index: ~/ls-lR.gz / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only stupid question is the unasked one /