The above installation was on AOLserver 2.3.3(libc5) Slackware Linux kernel 2.0.34.
I decided to try it on my workstation which runs Red Hat 6.1 and AOLserver 3.0rc1. I haven't had any problems on this machine. From what I can find out, I have too many files open. This affected multiple programs, especially ls, and visiting a web page with many images.