[comp.lang.perl] Perl 3.044 crashes my system

peter@radig.de (Peter Radig) (01/22/91)

I just installed Perl 3.044 an my Interactive 2.2 with gcc 1.38.
But after that there are some strange systems happening:

In the nite I run 4 system-cleanup-scripts written in Perl. They all
start at the same time. But they not not run at all.
When I type in a ps -ef the system shows all Perl processes hanging
with 0:00 CPU usage.  And this command is one the last things I can do
with the system. E.g., if I type ls -la /usr/local/bin the system hangs
on all ports. All shell built-ins (echo *) function properly but no forks do.
It seems that the system cannot fork any more.

This happened three times so I went back to Perl 3.041 and the problem
vanishes.

What did I wrong?

Peter