Brian's problem...

[Bill Vermillion]

I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Tue, Nov 30 01:21 , Brian K. White
actually admitted to saying:" 

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:38 AM
> Subject: Brian's problem...
> 
> 
> >
> >Sorry, deleted the thread and subject.

> >But, I meant to mention in my last post that MAXUP is probably
> >the resource Ken was referring to as the one which limits user
> >processes. It used to be 50 (hmmmm) on older SCO systems, but
> >is now 100 as a default. This once bit me pretty bad. I kept
> >having all sorts of failures.... because I didn't know that
> >they hired a new user (this was back in about 1987 or so) and
> >they just let her use the same login id as another girl. The
> >_strangest_ undiscoverable problems were happening, until I
> >tracked it down to MAXUP going over 50! Then they told me
> >that the new "mary" was logging in with the old mary's login
> >becuase they didn't know how to add a new user. I fixed the
> >problem first by giving the new mary the name maryd and later
> >just changed the tunable to 100.

> >Totally off subject but the same kind of inscruatable errors
> >will bite you if FLCRECS or (maybe its NUMFLKRECS or whatever)
> >is too small. Strnge memory region hassles start happening
> >and they expose themselves as completely strange failures at
> >completely odd places... with hardly any way to trace them.

> >John

> Thanks for the leads John.
> MAXUP was already 100, Bela says the limit is 11,000 since 4.2, I upped it 
> to 255
> KERNEL_FLCKREC was 256
> KERNEL_FLCKREC_MAX is 16000
> so I upped KERNEL_FLCKREC to 512
> 
> ...reboot...  it acts exactly the same. right down to the wierd ness of ksh 
> working at levels 1 through 28, 43, and 45
> 
> I like those changes though for this system so it wasn't a waste exactly, 
> it just had no effect on this problem.

Docs also say that MAXUP should be at least 10% smaller than
MAX_PROC.  Default setting of MAX_PROC is set to 10,000 on systems
with more than 48MB of memory so you are in good shape there.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com