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- From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: max. number of process on indigo
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:37:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.133345.29935@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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- kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
- >...we got errors from cron saying that a process
- >couldn't be forked. 'ps' showed (shortly after that) a total of 91
- >processes running. My question:
- >Does
- >#define NPROC 96 /* # processes */
- >in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel indeed define the maximum number of processes ?
- >If so, can I just increase this number and do a 'autoconfig -f' ?
-
- Yes, set it to a larger number, say 256, and run autoconfig.
-
- NOTE: there is also MAXUP, the maximum number of processes per user.
-
- ...robert
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