SUMMARY: reconfigure max-proc-per-user

From: Becki S Kain <bkain1_at_ford.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:37:21 -0500

Original question:

I'm on a 4.0 box and I'm trying to reconfigure max-proc-per-user. I have
already reconfigured maxusers. I get an error when I do this:

#sysconfig -r proc max-proc-per-user=512 -v
subsystem error: Function not implemented

what am I doing wrong? I couldn't find the proc subsystem in sysconfigdb.
Should I be using that instead?

Answer:

It was suggested that I try dxkerneltuner but since I am remote, I couldn't.
(I would not recommend to anyone doing kernel stuff remotely, btw).

Between 3.2c and 4.0, Dec changed how to do kernel tuning. /etc/sysconfigtab
is not the way to go anymore, for some parameters. Here is what you need for
4.0.

You have to make a file with the proc stanza in it and then merge that with the
sysconfigtab using sysconfigdb. So the file should look something like

proc:
        maxusers=whatever
        max-proc-per-user=512


The command syntax is something like

sysconfigdb -f proc.stanza -a proc

Then reboot. Ought to do what you want.


Unlike 3.2c, this does not work:

#sysconfig -v -r proc max-proc-per-user=512

thanks to:

Mike_Matthews_at_sgate.com
kemiller_at_hcs.harvard.edu
peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il
Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com
henderson_at_unx.dec.com
p_milnes_at_BANKS.NTU.EDU.AU

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Received on Thu Nov 14 1996 - 19:36:29 NZDT

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