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- From: hurf@boa.graphics.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Building HP Kernals
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 15:36:47 GMT
- Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
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- In article <1992Dec16.015005.1043@nb.rockwell.com>, lccha@nb.rockwell.com (Lloyd C. Cha) writes:
- |> A question for HP Kernal hackers:
- |>
- |> I am trying to modify several parameters in our HP-UX 8.07 kernal running on
- |> HP 9000 series 730 machines. Specifically, the parameters NPROC and MAXFILES.
- |> The procedure I have been following is:
- |>
- |> 1) make the changes in the #define statements of the conf.c file
- |> in /etc/conf
- |>
- |> so I have: #define NPROC (20+8*MAXUSERS+(NGCSP))*3
- |> #define MAXFILES 256
- |>
- |> 2) execute make -f config.mk in the same directory.
- |>
- |> The conf.o file gets rebuilt, as does the hp-ux kernal. However, when I
- |> examine the kernal using SAM after rebooting, I find that the nproc value
- |> still has the incorrect value. I was not able to locate the MAXFILES parameter
- |> within SAM (does anyone have a way of checking the value of this by reading
- |> the kernal?), but I think that also was not set.
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- I have found that some kernal parameters will not change unless changed in /etc/master.
- Sam ususlly reports the correct kernal parameter value - adb will report
- incorrectly large values to kernal parameters under 8.07 (why?) as will monitor.
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