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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: MAXPROCS in AIX 3.1 - or other limit
Keywords: limits, system
Message-ID: <4415@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 23:40:47 GMT
References: <659@chevpyr.chevron.com>
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In article <659@chevpyr.chevron.com>, meo@chevpyr.chevron.com (Mike E.
Osborne) writes:
Mike> Anyone out there know where to find the max number of processes
Mike> per user (MAXPROCS in other AIX versions) in AIX 3.1 ?  We seem
Mike> to hit a limit of about 40 processes for users other than root
Mike> and don't seem able to find any place to fix it.  (40 is a small
Mike> number for X applications) ((yes we have looked in info, tried
Mike> various limits, SMIT, etc.))

Not exactly the most documented thing, but here it is:

lsattr -E -l sys0

to show the current system attributes...

To change:

chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=<num>

where <num> is the number you want to set it to...  This was discussed
in this newsgroup quit a few months ago in case you have this group
archived...

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