Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!fido.asd.sgi.com!texas.asd.sgi.com!robert From: robert@texas.asd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: running out of processes Message-ID: <1991Jun26.170605.29253@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 17:06:05 GMT References: Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin) Reply-To: robert@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Advanced Systems Division Lines: 24 In article , mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: |> I keep running out of process slots on my 4D25/TG running IRIX 3.3.1. |> I typically have 80 processes going when I am just sitting at the |> console, so if one person logs in on an X-windows terminal I usually |> hit the magic limit (around 90 processes?) and have to start killing |> things. |> |> This is very inconvenient for me. Is there any way that I can patch |> the kernel (or whatever) to up the size of the process table to at |> least 128 entries? look in the IRIS-4D System Administrator's Guide, section 13, Kernal Configuration. If you don't have that manual, send me mail, and I can spell out the steps. -- Robert Skinner robert@sgi.com "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Kenneth Galbraith