> After I've been logged in for a while (anywhere from 30 minutes to
> several hours) I start getting an error "fork: resource unavailable",
> which prevents me from doing several things, like opening most programs,
> suing to root, etc.  Anyone ever seen this, and know what's going on?

Sounds to me like a fork bomb or something similar. Every now and then
these crop up in weird places. Watch ps or top to see what is forking so
much. (watch 'ps ax | wc -l' if your lazy like me)

I had to do some interesting twists to get around a fork bomb type
problem when I moved to debian. Debian's which command is a bash shell
script. So it would source my profile every time it was run, which would
call which, which would source my profile.......

Good luck!

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