Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!gistdev!flint From: flint@gistdev.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Gigantic character variables Message-ID: <8300013@gistdev> Date: 5 Apr 89 18:56:00 GMT References: <589@mbph.UUCP> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:mbph.UUCP:589:gistdev:8300013:000:475 Nf-From: gistdev.UUCP!flint Apr 5 13:56:00 1989 free clists, all input/output activity from/to terminal ports and the console will cease. No warning message is printed by the system to show that it is out of clists". Sounded good at first, so we raised the NCLIST tunable parameter from 120 to 170 (recom- mended value for 4M machine) and then to 200 (the max. in mtune). Stil had the problem, though. Which leads to a couple of quick ques- tions: 1.) Can you check the number of free clists while the system is ru