Greetings, Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new processes can't have been started. "vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" is what my shell (zsh) says. If, with echo `< file`, I examine the contents of /proc filesystem, I see _many_ cron processes. Too many, it seems. I don't think the process count is hitting kernel's default limit of 512 processes (IIRC).
This booting is rather unpleasant as the machine is our router, {DNS, www proxy, mysql, samba, nfs, canna, skk, apache, ppp, print, my emacs :)} server so if anyone has had similar experiences, I'd like to know ASAP. I'm not sure if switching to exim is the actual cause -- I did update several packages about day or two before switched to exim, but the first time I saw this happen was pretty immediately after this switch. FWIW, kernel is 2.1.117ac3/x86. Good ideas about how to trace the cause of the problem are also appreciated. Logs haven't revealed anything relevant. Thanks in advance, //Hannu