Runaway dtscreen processes

From: Andy Malato (andym@oak.njit.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 13:43:52 EDT


This morning one of our users complained that he couldn't login to his
workstation and was getting an error such as the following:

task_create() failed for pid 74380: max_proc_per_user (=256) exceeded
for uid 30525.

A ps -ef revelead about 240 processes of dtscreen:

peterp 70575 19298 0.0 00:09:11 ?? 0:00.05
/usr/dt/bin/dtexec -open 0 -ttprocid 1.-U63_ 01 19349 1342177279 1 1
30525 128.235.80.88 4_1420_1 /usr/dt/bin/dtscreen -mode worm

I am not sure what has caused this, but it doesn't seem normal. Has
anyone ever experienced something similar. If not, does anyone have any
suggestions in preventing this from happening again?

Regards,

         ---Andy



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