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From: robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Robert Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Question about max. # of processes on HP 9000.
Message-ID: <12025@sri-spam.istc.sri.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 00:26:35 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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Keywords: How many, and how can I make it more?


    I've been doing some software IPC experimentation on an HP 9000 which
    requires that I be able to start up about 1 Server process and about
    30 Client processes.  Currently I seem to only be able to start up about
    22 Client processes before getting an error message from the system
    saying "no more processes".  Has anyone encountered this problem, and
    if so did you find some way of raising the limit?  I've been running as
    a simple user; I assume that root can make as many processes as it wants?

    By the way, it takes 15 seconds on our HP 9000 for the error message to
    come back saying "no more processes".  Anyone have any idea why it takes
    so long?  It seems to be doing something complex, since INTR'ing the client
    spawning process causes the bufferred error message to show up before the
    15 seconds is up.

    Any help, particularly with the first problem, will be much appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Robert Allen, robert@spam.istc.sri.com
    415-859-2143 (work phone, days)
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