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Article #315Re: max. number of process on indigo
From: Robert Keller
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37
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kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
>...we got errors from cron saying that a process
>couldn't be forked. 'ps' showed (shortly after that) a total of 91
>processes running. My question:
>Does
>#define NPROC 96 /* # processes */
>in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel indeed define the maximum number of processes ?
>If so, can I just increase this number and do a 'autoconfig -f' ?
Yes, set it to a larger number, say 256, and run autoconfig.
NOTE: there is also MAXUP, the maximum number of processes per user.
...robert
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