Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!eos!data.nas.nasa.gov!nas.nasa.gov!ayee From: ayee@nas.nasa.gov (Arnold M. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: running out of processes Message-ID: <1991Jun28.171347.2654@nas.nasa.gov> Date: 28 Jun 91 17:13:47 GMT References: <1991Jun26.225607.8833@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov Reply-To: ayee@nas.nasa.gov (Arnold M. Yee) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 27 In article <1991Jun26.225607.8833@odin.corp.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes: |> In 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? |> |> Change NPROC in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel, run /etc/init.d/autoconfig, |> and then reboot. You might want to save your existing kernel first, just |> in case :). If you are running X-windows and open a lot of clients, you might also want to change MAXUP in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel. --Arnold __________________________________________________________________________ Arnold M. Yee Systems Administrator CSC/NAS ayee@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center ...!ames!amelia!ayee Mail Stop 258-6 415.604.4315 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 __________________________________________________________________________