From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: DOSEMU --> process table overflow. Help! Date: 1 Apr 1993 22:20:31 GMT
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>>>>When I tried a few batch files from d:, the dosemu process froze, and
>>>>I found that all of my usual tools on the other consoles were dead. I
>>>>couldn't use `ps' or `top,' getting either "no free processes" or
>>>>"process table overflow." (I finally managed to kill the process by
>
>Can you reproduce this error? I find it highly unlikely that dosemu
>is filling up the process table, as the latest RELEASED dosemu never
>forks.
Happens every time.
>If you are sure it is a dosemu problem, please e-mail me so that we can work
>on it more directly.
I'm not >sure< it's a dosemu problem, because I just upgraded to SLS
so that I could run dosemu, but everything else works flawlessly. But
I don't think the problem is lots of errant processes. As I
mentioned, I couldn't run ps, but if I exited a VC, and then VERY
QUICKLY ran ps on another, I did >not< get hundreds of processes. A
kernel bug perhaps?
At any rate, I have not been able to run anything other than DOS so
far (that is, no applications at all) I think because I haven't got a
387. I'm going to get one and see if it helps.
-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)