debian running out of threads

[hanasaki]

Hello,

The below configuration is running out of threads.  This is indicated by
Netbeans 3.6 (a Java ide - www.netbeans.org) reporting "out of memory
error, cant make new native thread".  The interesting thing about this
is that it began right after I upgraded from gnome2.4 to gnome2.6  After
killing the netbeans/java task, even simple unix processes cannot get
enough resources to run (ex: kill, ps, ls ...)  It was necessary to goto
a root account to kill the ide process.

Any thoughts on what is going on and how to resolve it?

Thank you,

config
debian - unstable
gnome 2.6 - from debian packages
kernel 2.6.5
1 gig ram
AMD Barton 3000+
Free RAM = 20Meg physical and 1gig Swap
Netbeans 3.6
Java JDK 1.5Beta1

attached:
netbeans log file