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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Running out of processes
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:04:13 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <JDELL.92Aug27164104@nefertiti.mit.edu> jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe) writes:
- > I've got a SPARCstation 2, which is running SunOS 4.1.1. We like to
- >use this machine for batch jobs. But sometimes we get the "No more processes"
- >error and I can't even open up a window. I was wondering where I could
- >configure our system to allow more processes. I looked in the kernel, but
- >there was only something about MAXUSERS, which looked like more of a floating
- >limit. Should I be changing this?
-
- Yes.
-
- I'm not sure what you mean by "a floating limit", but many of the kernel
- table sizes are derived from MAXUSERS. This includes the process table and
- the file table.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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