thanks to all that replied. it turns out I was running into some limits,
but not the ones set by kernel tuning the proc subsystem. what I really
needed to look at was man ulimit.
that fixed it. thanks to all the UNIX knowers who helped out a newbie.
-guilherme
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Guilherme Roschke *
Programmer/SysAdmin/Researcher *
Dept. of Anesthesia *
University of Pennsylvania Medical School *
gr_at_network3.entropy.upenn.edu *
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Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 22:18:13 NZDT