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On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Daniela wrote:
[ ... ]
 > Is it possible that the process table is full (I had more than 450 
processes
 > last time I ran top) or I ran out of memory (512M RAM + 1024M swap)?

Yes, both things are possible, but FreeBSD should handle running out of 
resources much more gracefully than locking up.  Normally, you'd see 
"cannot fork -- resource not available" type errors, not a frozen 
machine.

-Chuck