Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!xpiinc!dob
From: dob@xpiinc.UU.NET (David O. Bundy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: sun 3/60 "text: table is full" error message?
Message-ID: <169@xpiinc.UU.NET>
Date: 30 Aug 88 22:45:31 GMT
References: <1396@wor-mein.UUCP>
Reply-To: dob@xpiinc.UUCP (David O. Bundy)
Organization: XPI Inc., Providence, R.I.
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In article <1396@wor-mein.UUCP> jim@wor-mein.UUCP (Jim Chekerylla) writes:
>I am running X11V2 on a monochrome Sun 3/60 with a local disk and 4 MB of 
>.....
>
>When I run too many demo programs, I get the error message "text: table is
>full" in my xterm console window and other people's processes (eg. compiles)
>get killed. ....
>It seems if I add more RAM (already ordered), that I'm
>just pushing the problem off until a heavier load is reached.


	I am mailing this to the net since I have answered this about 10 
times already and I couldn't figure out a mail path to Jim.

	Your problem is not memory but your kernel configuration!
Buying more memory won't solve it!!!

	The problem is that the variable ntext in /sys/conf/param.c is set
too low!  We made the following two changes to make it higher:

	In /sys/conf change the following two files:

---->	GENERIC or whatever your system's configure file is:

	changed

	maxusers        4

	to

	maxusers        8

---->	in /sys/conf/param.c

	changed

	int	ntext = 24 + MAXUSERS;

	to

	int     ntext = 24 + (4 * MAXUSERS);


	You then need to do a config GENERIC (or whatever yours is) then go
	into /sys/GENERIC and do a make depend, and make vmunix.  Then copy
	the new vmunix to where you boot and reboot. Your now ready to start
	as many clients as you like until you run out of swap space but then
	you just need more disk!

				Dave Bundy