Max # of procceses on RS6000
Marc Cooper
marcc at yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Dec 4 03:29:21 AEST 1990
Ok, unsubstantiated rumor time...
I have heard that running AIX 3.1 (I think that's the right number) on an
RS6000 530, there is an undocumented "feature." Namely, that there is a
maximum number of processes that can be running simultaneously. I am
NOT alking about maxuproc, which, by default, is 40. That only controls how
many processes each user might run. I'm talking ALL processes, total!
The way I hear it, if the unspecified max number is exceeded, the machine
will start killing off the most resource hogging jobs, which in my case
happen to belong to a research chemist who would be VERY upset if
his calculations started dying.
Is there a maximum nimber of total processes the 6000 can handle? If so,
what is that number? And what happnes when you try to exceed it?
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