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From: matt@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Mathew Accapadi;3-3517)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: MAXPROCS in AIX 3.1 - or other limit
Keywords: limits, system
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Date: 29 Nov 90 23:35:00 GMT
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In article <659@chevpyr.chevron.com> meo@chevron.com  (Mike E. Osborne) writes:
>Anyone out there know where to find the max number of processes
>per user (MAXPROCS in other AIX versions) in AIX 3.1 ?
>We seem to hit a limit of about 40 processes for users other than
>root and don't seem able to find any place to fix it.
>(40 is a small number for X applications)
>((yes we have looked in info, tried various limits, SMIT, etc.))
>

The maximum number of processes for users is defined by the "maxuproc"
attribute for the sys0 device.  To list the attributes, you could do
something like "lsattr -E -l sys0".  To change the max number of 
processes, execute "chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=xxx" where xxx is the
number you want to set it to.  I suppose you could do this with smit also.

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