MAXPROCS in AIX 3.1 - or other limit
Freddy Jensen
jensen at adobe.com
Fri Dec 7 01:56:29 AEST 1990
In article <659 at chevpyr.chevron.com> meo at chevron.com (Mike E. Osborne) writes:
>Anyone out there know where to find the max number of processes
>per user (MAXPROCS in other AIX versions) in AIX 3.1 ?
>We seem to hit a limit of about 40 processes for users other than
>root and don't seem able to find any place to fix it.
>(40 is a small number for X applications)
>((yes we have looked in info, tried various limits, SMIT, etc.))
>
>Thanks in advance for the help.
>
Hi Folks,
I have frequently run out of process slots on my RS/6000. The reason is
that I run X windows with *MANY* windows. I called IBM, and got this answer:
To look at the system configuration, become root and type:
lsattr -E -l sys0
You will see that maxuproc is 40 (max 40 processes per user).
AIX allows you to change that without rebuilding the kernel, or even rebooting.
Just do:
chdev -l sys0 -a maxuproc=80
And voila! you can now run 80 processes per user.
If you start running low on paging space, send me email and I'll tell you
how to increase it (again without rebuilding or rebooting).
Freddy
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