My thanks to the swift reponse of all on the list with special thanks to
Edward Silver and Phil ? <phillip_at_uvo.dec.com> for the solution, making
changes to macuprc and maxusers. What follows is Edward's rundown of the
problem.
Thanks!
Jim
The original problem:
>
> I'm starting to see a few of the following errors in /var/adm/messages:
>
> Dec 21 09:18:16 ocaxp1 vmunix: fork/procdup: task_create failed. Code: 0x11
>
> Can anyone give me a little insight into what might be happening?
>
> Jim
>
The fix:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Edward D. Silver <eds_at_a1.ipcc.com>
To: James Anderson <anderson_at_ocaxp1.cc.oberlin.edu>
Subject: Re: fork/procdup errors?
James -- You have to chaneg your machine kernal configurations, it has a
limit on the number of proccesses and the number of children that can be
spawned, I believe the variables are maxusers (which has nothing to do
with actual users but the number of proccesses allowed) and maxuprc we
have
ours set to 64 and 256 respectively. Once you change those configs (in
/sys/conf/the_name_of_your_machine) you must re-build the kernal and
replace the new kernal with the old, of course make a backup of your old
kernal in case all else fails.
We had the identical delima. Good luck.
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