Thanks to all who responded:
Michael James Bradford <mjbr_at_tdk.dk>
ABenthem_at_PVF.NL
"Michael A. Crowley" <mcrowley_at_mtholyoke.edu>
The problem was solved by increasind also the
max_users value. Mr.Benthem pointed out that
the max-thread-per-user and max-proc-per-user
are affected by the value of max_users. After
increasin max_user the other values raised to
what I had configured them to be.
It should be noted that we didnt have any runaway
processes forking away, but were just running
really busy web / chat server. Thats why I needed
to increase those kernel variables.
Original question follows:
Were running pretty busy web server with a popular
www-based chat system (yes I know theyre horrible :)on
AlphaStation 500.
I keep getting "No more processes" when doing something
under shell and sometimes "Fork failed" when trying to
log in. So its obvious I am running out of processes.
I have increased th max-proc-per-user to 512,
max-thread-per-user to 1024. However after rebooting
and checkin the values with dxkerneltuner it says
max-proc-per-user current value is only 267 and
max-threads-per-user is only 532.
Why do they stay so low and are not what I tried to
configure them to?
Also how do I get rid of those "no more processes"
messages?
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Mika Tuupola tuupola_at_appelsiini.net
Appelsiini Networks http://www.appelsiini.net/
Received on Tue Mar 17 1998 - 13:15:41 NZST