Sorry for the late summary. I had to make sure the system was running fine
before I posted the summary. I got serveral responses, most of them within
24 hours after I posted my message. I love this list!
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My original message:
We have a problem with our DU 3.2D-2 system. We have set up a GUEST user
with no password and this account is used throughout the plant to run our
attendance monitoring system (AMS). Since the AMS has its own login
validation, a common guest account was enough. Our licence is for 64
users.
When the no. of GUEST logins reaches around 17, this message comes up
after logging in:
cannot fork: too many processes
The $ prompt comes up sometimes after this error, but all I can do is
EXIT.
Where do I start looking to solve this problem?
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These are the results:
1. I tried changing the MAXUSERS value in /sys/conf/HOSTNAME, but the
problem did not go away. I increased the value from 32 to 128 and rebuilt
the kernel.
2. I increased max-proc-per-user and max-threads-per-user in sysconfigtab
to 512. THIS solved the problem. This is what my /etc/sysconfigtab file
look like:
proc:
max-proc-per-user=512
max-threads-per-user=512
3. After having done this, I had to increase the no. of tty's since the
max was only around 32 by doing a MAKEDEV PTY_1.
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Thanks to the followin persons for all the info and even sending follow-up
mails:
Olle Eriksson
Mandell Degerness
Flamand Laurent
Jude T. Cruz
Juergen Bock
Kai Grunau
Serge Collin
Aideen McConville
Isaac
Eric Z. Ayers
Matt White
Dr. Tom Blinn
James Michaud
Andrea Mahlberg
Alan Rollow
Graham McKenzie
Robert McMillin
Jude T. Cruz for the follow-up
Raja Nagaraja
Andre Delafontaine
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Benjie Gandionco
Information Systems
Fairchild Semiconductor, Cebu
Received on Wed Mar 12 1997 - 07:53:49 NZDT