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- From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
- Subject: Re: AIX system process limits
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:58:13 GMT
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- In article <C0FFoE.MD0@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:
- >
- > 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?
-
- The value is probably stored in a var structure in kernel space (see
- <sys/var.h>). One should be able to read it via knlist, probably from
- the symbol "v".
-
- The maximum process count element of v is v_proc. The comments in
- <sys/var.h> say it's one of
-
- /* the following variables are statically defined by the kernel
- at kernel compile time
- */
-
- So I doubt that you can change it with smit or any other magic command.
-