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From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: proc: table is full
Summary: bsd mach nproc=NNN
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Date: 13 Mar 90 17:58:42 GMT
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If I can briefly interrupt all the fun rumors about the new 100 MHz
68090-equipped NeXT with the 16GB, 8-ms optical drive, 128MB RAM,
64-bit color with Renderman running on a one-chip RISC hypercube
multiprocessor inside the box... (hmm, maybe it'll be water-cooled :-P)

Recently I asked whether there was a way to increase the size of the
process table without building a new kernel (which one cannot do because
the kernel-building stuff didn't come with 1.0).

The answer MAY be yes.  I haven't tried it yet, but I was told that
rebooting the cube with the clause "nproc=NNN", where NNN is the number of
process slots you want, will do the correct thing.  My source wasn't
sure that this would work on a customer software release, but apparently
they use it internally at NeXT.

The obvious follow-up question is:  what else can we tweak with these
clauses?

TTFN- Pat
--
Patrick Flynn, CS, Michigan State University, flynn@cps.msu.edu

"I notice your oeuvre is monochromatic." -- Hobbes