Gigantic character variables

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free clists, all input/output activity from/to terminal ports and
the console will cease.  No warning message is printed by the
system to show that it is out of clists".  Sounded good at first,
so we raised the NCLIST tunable parameter from 120 to 170 (recom-
mended value for 4M machine) and then to 200 (the max. in mtune).
Stil had the problem, though.  Which leads to a couple of quick ques-
tions:

	1.) Can you check the number of free clists while the
		system is ru