running out of processes

[Dave Olson]

In <MCCALPIN.91Jun26091710 at pereland.cms.udel.edu> mccalpin at perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:

| I keep running out of process slots on my 4D25/TG running IRIX 3.3.1.
| I typically have 80 processes going when I am just sitting at the
| console, so if one person logs in on an X-windows terminal I usually
| hit the magic limit (around 90 processes?) and have to start killing
| things.   
| 
| This is very inconvenient for me.  Is there any way that I can patch
| the kernel (or whatever) to up the size of the process table to at
| least 128 entries?

Change NPROC in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel, run /etc/init.d/autoconfig,
and then reboot.  You might want to save your existing kernel first, just
in case :).