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- From: enertec@netcom.com (Rick Whiffen)
- Subject: No more processes ? It's a lie !
- Message-ID: <dtlnb9m.enertec@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 16:09:34 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- I am posting this here in the hope that someone can provide
- me with a clue for the solution to this problem.
-
- We are running ISC 3.0 Unix, SyBase, some client applications
- and X-windows(r4) on a 486 platform and are experincing a
- strange problem.
-
- While running, the system will output (on the F8 console) messages from
- sybase "no more processes" and the X server Xvga "Select waitforsomething
- errno=11". Both software packages seem to believe that the process table
- is full. I have verified that this is not the case ( NPROC=200 and ps -ef
- yields 78 entries). The system seems to function fine (applications perform
- thier expectted tasks properly), but we are concerned that we exhausting some
- system resource that will bite us in the future. Scanning the man pages indicates
- that errno 11 can be returned by system calls that have nothing to do with
- process manipulation (most notably message and STREAMS calls). Use of "crash"
- and the strstat command, however indicates that no stream parameters have been
- exceeded.
-
- If anyone can provide some insight related to this problem, the help would
- be greatly appreciated.
-
-
- Thanx in advance
-
- John Feras
-
- enertec@netcom.com
-
-