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From: huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to modify the "kernel'?
Summary: Y'er hosed
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Date: 6 Sep 90 20:21:39 GMT
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In article <6881.26e59640@jetson.uh.edu> cosc4fp@jetson.uh.edu writes:
>This is driving crazy.....  how does one configure the "kernel" on an
>Apollo?  I need to raise the max number of processes on a machine.

I too would like to change some system paramaters on my gateway machine
which runs several daemons, and cnews.  Specifically the 'max open files'
parameter.

But like other non-standard aspects of HPollo's (swap partitions,
acl's, /etc/{passwd,group}, dm, type-mgrs, device-drivers and many many
more) I'm sure "it's a feature not a bug".  A feature which, like so
many others, makes these machines more quirky less usefull and more
difficult to integrate into a heterogenous environment.

When are companies (hp/apollo, dec, +many others) going to learn that
nonstandard software environments are expensive, and *devalue* their
systems?

brad
	huntting@boulder.colorado.edu
	huntting@sel.bldrdoc.gov