Hmm, guess this isn't an easy to reproduce problem or else it's gone in
the newest kernels. I presume the resource that was unavailable in your
case was spare process slots? Did you have lots of sleeping processes
already? Hard to be sure, as I would have thought the load would go way
higher than 55, but were you watching
the total process count with top or something?
In my case, I had almost nothing running, maybe a few dozen procs, and
then the make started about 400 processes, and then I interrupted it
before seeing any resource problems, but the damage was done.
Neil
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