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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RS/6000, AIX problems
Message-ID: <407@bria>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:25:46 GMT
References: <25747@adm.brl.mil>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik)
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, esperia.iesl.forth.gr!havaki (Popi Havaki) writes:
>I am a new user of a RS600/320 machine running AIX OS. I have some problems
>running fortran programms in the background successively.After about the 
>tenth running i get the message :
>1501-222 Cannot fork processes,Resources temporarily unavailable ..

There is a configurable limit to the maximum number of processes per user;
this value may be too low for your usage.   Login as root and try the
following command:

	# chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=100

This will change the maximum number of processes per user to 100; however,
you might want to make sure that your programs aren't "running away" from
you and recursivley creating instances of themselves, or forking processes
that don't croak.

NOTE: Unlike many other flavors of UNIX, you don't have to perform the crude
      rain-dance of rebooting the machine.
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Michael Stefanik                       | Opinions stated are not even my own.
Systems Engineer, Briareus Corporation | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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