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From: mlr@goanna.oz.AU (Mark Ross)
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Subject: Umax4.2 R3.3.0 bugs
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Date: 18 May 89 22:30:47 GMT
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We have two Encore machines in our Department, a 320 running V.2.2.f
and a 310 running Umax 4.2 R3.3.0. We are experiencing a problem with
Umax 4.2 R3.3.0 that I hope someone may know something about or even better
know if a fix is available.

The problem is as follows:

After the machine has been running for a few hours it begins to kill
new processes. It is at about the same time that the paging activity
on the system gets very high. The system has about 30 users on it
and the load is mostly less than 2. Most users just access email
so the work performed by the system is quite trivial.

At the time when the paging activity is high the system kills new processes
and reports
	1) No more processes
	2) Out of memory

The system is unusable when it is in this state. The only solution
is a reboot. The configuration of the 310 system is 1APC,1EMC,16Mbytes and
2 Wren IV drives.

Some of the software configurations are
Maxusers: 60
Max_procs: 50
Nswbuf: 32
Wssrate: 2000000
Maxwire: 0

There is 40Mbyte of swap space on the system

Is anyone else having this problem?

On a separate point does anyone know whether a Umax4.3 is going to become
available or is the merged UmaxV the direction be developed?


Mark Ross,
Senior Lecturer

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