On Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 09:24:44PM +0300, eyal elad wrote:
: > Something is wrong. I have seen a Sparc SLC, 20MHZ, 16mb RAM running
: > hundreds of processes at once. Not very quickly, but..... Your machines
: > are doing something very strange.
: Could be, could be... It's probably the AIX's fault.
It's definitely AIX's fault. If nobody's fiddled with it, the per-user
process limit is set at something ridiculously small. (32, I think, under
4.1.5. I don't know beans about 3.x.)
: Perhaps a kernel recompilation is
: needed. Unfrotunately(?) the AIX on my university are tagged "zero
: maintanince, wait till they all die". Nobody is going to recompile
: anything for them.
Nope! Luckily (again, under 4.x), no recompilation is needed. What's needed
is a user with root authority which will run a command like:
chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=512
Well, that's how mine is set, anyway. But I'm the only user on mine, so the
extra resources that are taken up with the higher limits aren't multiplied
by large numbers of other people. YMMV, but I certainly don't think you
should be running out of processes as soon as you say you are.
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cloyce_at_austin.ibm.com certainly won't say I speak for them.
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Received on Mon Aug 11 1997 - 15:56:18 BST