running out of processes

[Robert Skinner]

In article <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?

look in the IRIS-4D System Administrator's Guide, 
section 13, Kernal Configuration.  

If you don't have that manual, send me mail, and I can spell out
the steps.

-- 
Robert Skinner
robert at sgi.com

	"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by
	spectacular error."
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