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From: mikei@ctdi.UUCP (Mike Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Process limits
Keywords: Process, Unix
Message-ID: <791@ctdi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:09:18 GMT
Organization: Communications Test Design, Inc., West Chester, Pa.
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I am having a problem which I am hoping a wizard can shed some light on.

I am running AT&T Unix SYSV on an AT&T 386WGS with 16 meg of memory.  The
system is primarily used to run Ingres based applications and has 16 IPC
ports.

The problem I am having is that once I reach approximately 40 processes
(As seen by "ps -eaf") an attempt to run another Ingres application
produces the message

    "spawn system process table is temporarily full"

I am fairly certain that I have run at least this many processes on other
386 systems without similiar problems.  Is there an upper limit to the
number of processes I can have running?  Is this limit adjustable
without modifying source code?  How would I adjust it if so?

Any insights, ideas, solutions would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond
by mail and/or post a message to this conference if you can shed some light
on this rather dismal situation.

Thanks,

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