Dear All,
We have an AlphaServer 2100 running OSF1 3.0. Our users
are novice programers, and we have detected something which seems a
S.O. bug.
If you run a C program like
while (true)
{
fork()
}
it seems that the computer only prints the following
message on console:
vmunix: fork/procdup: task_create failed. Code: 0x11
this is due to a restriction in the number of user's process
(that we have set as 10).
We can do nothing, neither telnet or rlogin or..
to connect to the computer; the console doesn't respond
because it's printing the message above.
The only solution is to press the halt button, and
reboot the machine.
I have tried to run the same "program" on a Dec 3000-300LX
running OSF 2.0, and in this case we can login on console and kill
the process, because the console doesn't get collapsed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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Victor HUERTA E-mail: victorh_at_fib.upc.es
UNIX Systems Manager Tel: +34-3-4016943
Faculty of Computer Science of Barcelona Fax: +34-3-4017040
Technological University of Catalonia c/Pau Gargallo, 5
Spain 08036- BARCELONA (SPAIN)
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Received on Fri Mar 03 1995 - 12:27:22 NZDT