shell escape causes vi to lock up

[kvc at scgvaxd.UUCP]

When a user runs out of VMS processes, you most definitely do NOT
hang in an MWAIT.  The $CREPRC system service instead returns with
an error status of "exceeded quota".  I do not know what Eunice does
when it gets this error, but if it's hanging you in an MWAIT, then
it is definitely doing something wrong.

Since VMS processes share many resource quotas, is more likely that you
are running out of some other resource while you are trying to create
the process.  Some resources will wait in the MWAIT state for things
to free up.  If this is the problem, then you may try upping some of the
other process quotas.  You should look in the book to see what quotas
are shared (and hence being exhausted by multiple spawnings) and which
of those will hang in resource wait mode.

	/Kevin Carosso              allegra!scgvaxd!engvax!kvc
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.