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From: maurijn@pttdis (Maurijn van Tol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: How to increase # of semaphores
Message-ID: <181@pttdis.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:24:54 GMT
Reply-To: maurijn@pttdis.UUCP (Maurijn van Tol)
Organization: PTT Telecom b.v. The Netherlands
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Hi !
I'm sending this for a friend without access to the net,
please email replies directly to him.

Thanks,
	maurijn

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I want to increase the number of semaphores and semaphore identifiers
on our 4.1 Ultrix risc machine. I could not find a word about this in
the documentation (please point me to anything I may have missed), so
I added two lines to the kernel configuration file:

	options SEMMNI="40"
	options SEMMNS="100"

and ran 'doconfig'. However, the newly booted kernel apparently has
exactly the same number of semaphores and identifiers as the old one.

What did I do wrong?

BTW, if Ultrix has a kernel malloc(), why would one impose a maximum
number of semaphores at all?

	Siebren van der Zee, siebren@xirion.nl