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From: frank@ulticorp.UUCP (Frank Cannavale III/1024000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: MAXPROCS in AIX 3.1 - or other limit
Keywords: limits, system
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Date: 4 Dec 90 14:06:39 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 ?

Yes, maxuproc is configured into the 'system' device sys0.

>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.

Enter, at superuser level, lsattr -H -E -l sys0 to display
parameters and values

>(40 is a small number for X applications)

maxuproc default is 40...

>((yes we have looked in info, tried various limits, SMIT, etc.))

Funny, it's not there. I checked too. However, the documentation
for lsattr is available, just nothing much on sys0.

Use chdev to change the parameters. For example:
chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=NNN    You know what to do for NNN :)

Obviously, you can do this (lsattr & chdev) to all devices.
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