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From: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun OS obscure error message query - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 19:52:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 19:52:12 1987
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Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
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Summary: rebuild your kernel with bigger tables

> /***** iaoobelix:comp.unix.ques / citcom!peter /  4:10 pm  Apr 14, 1987*/
> 
> Every now and then, the console screen on our sun 3/50, 3/180
> network fills with the repeating message "text: table is full";

Even if the Sun in question does not have a full source license, you
should be able to fix this by building a custom kernel as described
in the Sun installation documents.  The size of the text table is
established in the file /sys/conf/param.c, where it is set to a default
value of 24 + MAXUSERS (which almost always seems to be too small!).

There are two ways you can increase the size of the text table: you can 
build a kernel with MAXUSERS set to some suitably large number in the
kernel description file, or you can change /sys/conf/param.c to use
a different formula for ntext.  The latter has the advantage that you
can selectively increase the size of the text table without incurring
the other overhead of increasing MAXUSERS.
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