At this time I feel like we have found the cause of the issue. There have changes made to a script used to query maps the geologist use. It looks like when we run the new "chooser" we end up with this error.

Linux workstation frequently needs reboot, error indicates #processes exceeded.

riy765@c224627 > cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.8 (Tikanga)

riy765@c224627 > uname -r
2.6.18-308.8.2.el5

processor : 7
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1998.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 7
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm
bogomips : 6333.50
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

08:21:16 AM CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %idle intr/s
08:21:16 AM all 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 99.94 1097.94
08:21:16 AM 0 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.98 1000.21
08:21:16 AM 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.99 0.02
08:21:16 AM 2 0.02 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.00 99.91 11.14
08:21:16 AM 3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.01
08:21:16 AM 4 0.05 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.93 0.00
08:21:16 AM 5 0.04 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.93 0.05
08:21:16 AM 6 0.05 0.08 0.03 0.01 0.00 0.03 0.00 99.79 86.50
08:21:16 AM 7 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.96 0.02

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@OP: Can you provide the solution so that others can also benefit from it?

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