Timeout table overflow in ISC 2.0.2

[Oisin Hurley]

[Posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have news access facilities]

This guy works on a 386 machine running ISC 2.0.2 . An interesting thing 
occurred the other day when he manually killed a process - the message

	WARNING: Timeout table overflow

was sent to the console, continuously, resulting in the machine getting locked
up. The process that was killed is designed to be a longlife effort, running
in the background and supervising 7 or 8 attached child processes. It also
has a message queue associated with it as do most of the children and messages
fly about like nobody's business. Some of the babies also connect to a 
database.

Has anybody come across this before? Does anybody know what's happening
(in detail)? 

Any (sane,relevent) contributions would be welcomed.


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Oisin Hurley, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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