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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Overflow warnings (SCO SV3.2)
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:50:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.175016.7295@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Nov11.014226.14160@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
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- dmunday@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
-
- >I have just started getting the fallowing two messages on our 486
- >SCO Unix System V/3.2 box
- >
- >WARNING: Region table overflow
- >NOTICE: File table overflow
- >
- >I suspect the second to be associated with too many file hungry background
- >tasks running at the same time.
- >
- >Can anyone tell me briefly what this means and how to get rid of it
- >
- >do I need to change the size of some system table?
-
- You need to increase NFILE and NREGION in the kernel.
-
- cd /etc/conf/cf.d
- ./configure
-
- find NREGION and NFILE, and increase their size quite a bit. I would recommend
- doubling them. Then relink the kernel. DO THIS IN SINGLE USER MODE! Back the
- system up first.
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