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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: No more processes ? It's a lie !
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.184855.29411@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:48:55 GMT
- References: <dtlnb9m.enertec@netcom.com>
- Organization: AT&T
- Lines: 44
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- In article <dtlnb9m.enertec@netcom.com> enertec@netcom.com (Rick Whiffen) writes:
- > 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
- >
-
- Check the per-user process limit (MAXUPROC?). There are two number-of-process
- limit: the size of the process table, which applies to the entire system,
- and the per-user process limit, which keeps single user from sucking up the
- whole process limit. So it is very possible, especially when using lots
- of windows, for a user to run out of processes while the system has plenty
- of space left.
-
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