running out of processes

[Arnold M. Yee]

In article <1991Jun26.225607.8833 at odin.corp.sgi.com>, olson at anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
|> 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 :).

If you are running X-windows and open a lot of clients, you might also want to change MAXUP in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel.

--Arnold
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