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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Is there a login limit?
- Message-ID: <oj8s1q0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <root.713813216@merlin>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:56:51 GMT
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- In <root.713813216@merlin> peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
- | Our Oracle team wanted to do some performance tests and proceeded
- | to log on multiple sessions to a special account the runs an
- | Oracle application directly. They had planned to open up 30
- | sessions, but after 25, no more connections would be accepted.
- | It would take the username/password but then would report
- | "connection closed". Is there a kernel limit for the number
- | of logins to an account? I did a quick look but didn't see
- | anything...
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- You are almost certainly running afoul of the number of open files
- per process (on the server, although that sounds low), I would imagine,
- or if all are being run as the same UID, the per UID max # of processes.
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- Both should be reconfigurable by changing the kernel config files.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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