timeout table overflow
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sun Sep 14 07:40:23 AEST 1986
In article <1010 at batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> hurf at batcomputer.UUCP
(Hurf Sheldon) writes:
[Vax crashes with "panic: timeout table overflow"]
>how can I increase the table size and is there a
>way already devised for flushing the table periodically?
You do not want to flush the table. The things in it are important!
The table size is determined by `ncallout'. This is a `configurable'
parameter, appearing in /sys/YOUR_MACHINE/param.c. This file is
normally copied from /sys/conf/param.c, which says
int ncallout = 16 + NPROC;
where NPROC is `#define'd to something depending on MAXUSERS, where
MAXUSERS comes from your config file in /sys/conf/YOUR_MACHINE.
If you are running out of timeout table entries, you probably have
maxusers set too low too; but you can, if you wish, just raise
ncallout, either by editing the private param.c, or (more quickly)
with adb:
% adb -w /vmunix
ncallout?D
_ncallout:
_ncallout: 122
ncallout?W 0t250
_ncallout:
_ncallout: 7a = fa
$q
%
This would raise ncallout from (e.g.) 122 decimal to 250 decimal.
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