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From: tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: number of processes problem?
Message-ID: <1812@wcc.oz.au>
Date: 18 Jun 91 03:49:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.044836.14114@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Organization: Webster Computer Corp, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 16

In article <1991Jun17.044836.14114@mel.dit.csiro.au>, hal@ditmela.mel.dit.csiro.au (Harold A. Miller) writes:
> 
> I seem to have hit an upper limit on the number of CAP processes we can run.
> We have a relatively simple setup: one Multigate (using 3 of it's 4 ports),
> and about half a dozen Macs, mostly IIs, with 4 printers.  We run timelord,
> aarpd, atis, and use aufs.  I had 4 lwsrv's running, and have increased it to
> 7...

My guess is that you might have run into atis' hardwired limit of 20
entries in its name table. Look for "#define NUMNVE 20" in "nisaux.c".
Also do an "atlook" (when it works) - anywhere near 20 entries?

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