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- From: jdp@polstra.uucp (John Polstra)
- Subject: Re: /bin/mailx -- what's Error 11???
- Message-ID: <C01oq8.MLA@polstra.uucp>
- Summary: It's EAGAIN -- Reconfigure with larger MAXUP
- Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc., Seattle, WA
- References: <BzwEzA.AxD@shyguy.lonestar.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:46:55 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <BzwEzA.AxD@shyguy.lonestar.org> bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:
- > I'm running Consensys V4 (AT&T SVR4) on my DTK 80486-25 machine. I've
- > been able to get Cnews (may'92) going a number of months back, along with
- > trn. The problem seems to be that at different times I'll see a problem with
- > replying to postings via Rnmail. I'll see output like:
- >
- > (exiting cbreak mode)
- > mail: error 11
-
- Usually when Unix utilities output lame error messages such as this
- one, the number that they print is simply the value of errno after a
- failed system call. (Never mind that perror() has been around for
- years and years.) INTRO(2) shows that error number 11 (at least on
- Esix SVR4) is EAGAIN (No more processes). That would fit with the fact
- that it doesn't fail every time.
-
- Increase the kernel parameter MAXUP (maximum allowed number of user
- processes at any given time), and rebuild your kernel. See manual
- sections IDTUNE(1M) and IDBUILD(1M) for information about how to do
- that.
-
- For what it's worth, I use MAXUP=60 on my system.
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