Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: No more PCB available! Message-ID: <1990Apr13.215015.9515@alphalpha.com> Date: 13 Apr 90 21:50:15 GMT References: <1990Apr10.144131.7561@quintro.uucp> Organization: asi Lines: 73 In article <1990Apr10.144131.7561@quintro.uucp> reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz) writes: >Recently we have been getting the message 'no more pcb available' and >sure enough we have reached the limit for processes. Does anyone >know how to increase this limit? Is 10.3 going to increase this limit? You certainly can't increase it yourself, and I assume it's non-trivial to change in the OS, or it would have been done ages ago. It happens to be regularly (like, every other day or so). I had to tell uucp not to invoke more than one uux at a time because after passing through sendmail and mailing list expansion and a few other things I regularly had 14 or more processes spawned, and I usually have 50 running anyway. Dieing with "no more pcb available" is the good part, a number of times it has died on me in such a way that I can no longer create any files or pipes and I have to hit the reset button to get out of it (or do a shut and go to lunch while all the file opens time out). Here's my vote for fixing this and fixing it soon. 64 is laughable. -kee PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S < 0:32 /etc/init 2 ? R 1238:12 null 3 ? S 1:20 purifier 4 ? S 0:01 purifier 5 ? S 1:39 unwired_dxm 6 ? S 0:00 pinger 7 ? S 0:00 netreceive 8 ? S 0:12 netpaging 9 ? S 0:37 wired_dxm 10 ? S 0:04 netrequest 90 ? S 4:49 /etc/tcpd 98 ? S 0:08 /etc/routed -f -q 101 ? S 0:00 /etc/inetd 104 ? S 0:00 /etc/ncs/llbd 109 ? S < 3:41 /etc/rgyd 113 ? S 0:59 /etc/cron 118 ? S 0:05 /sys/spm/spm 120 ? S 0:00 /etc/writed 124 ? S 0:00 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper 130 ? S 0:00 /etc/xdm 131 ? S 0:00 /etc/xdm 132 ? S < 20:37 /etc/Xapollo -D1 s+R+ 133 ? S 0:04 /etc/xdm 140 ? S 0:10 xterm -name console -iconic -title console -ls +ut 150 ? S 0:26 mwm 151 ? S 0:53 /usr/local/bin/hbiff 152 ? S 0:16 xterm -name main -title main -iconic 153 ? S 0:47 xterm -name mail -title mail -iconic 154 ? S 0:36 xterm -name news -title news -iconic 9242 ? S 0:00 - D2400 tty02 156 ttyp0 S 0:07 ksh 8884 ttyp0 S 0:52 rn 9419 ttyp0 S 0:00 /bin/sh -c Pnews -h /nazgul/.rnhead 9420 ttyp0 S 0:02 Pnews /usr/local/bin/Pnews -h /nazgul/.rnhead 9445 ttyp0 S 0:00 emacs /usr/local/bin/emacs /nazgul/.article 9449 ttyp0 S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuclient /nazgul/.article 157 ttyp1 S 0:01 ksh 181 ttyp1 S 0:00 az /nazgul/bin/az 182 ttyp1 S 1:06 /usr/local/bin/az -size 1000 162 ttyp2 S 0:18 ksh 9490 ttyp2 R 0:00 ps ax 165 ttyp3 S 0:05 -ksh 2176 ttyp3 S 1:39 tail -f /usr/adm/messages 2287 ttyp3 S 3:36 epoch 2293 ttyp4 S 0:01 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+