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- From: esulzner@cad669.intel.com (Eric Sulzner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX system process limits
- Message-ID: <ESULZNER.93Jan7115723@cad669.intel.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 19:57:23 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU's message of 6 Jan 93 09:57:49 GMT
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- csh gives the "no more processes" message when it gets ENOMEM. You may
- be low on paging.
-
- In article <C0FFoE.MD0@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:
-
- >> How can you tell the absolute limit of processes that can run on your
- >> AIX system?
- >
- >The operative commands are lsattr and chedev, applied to sys0. There
- >are also SMIT options. InfoExplorer will lead you to this information
- >with a compound search on "maximum AND user AND processes".
-
- Thanks to several people for their replies along these lines. I'm
- afraid I haven't made myself clear. Finding out and changing the
- number of processes allowed per user is trivial on AIX. The lsattr
- command will tell you; smit will both display it and let you change it.
-
- Finding out how many total processes may run on the system at once
- is not trivial. Does anyone understand where this value is stored,
- or if calculated, how?
-
- This came about because of a sick system that kept putting out the
- message: 'No more processes' no matter who tried to start up a new
- one (not just people already running near the max).
-
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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