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- From: garg@happy.ee.udel.edu (Vivek Garg)
- Subject: HP720 Process Table Problem: "no more processes"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.031327.2872@udel.edu>
- Keywords: OS Problem, process table
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:13:27 GMT
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- Hello fellow-netters,
- we have an HP720 running HPUX8.07, and we are experiencing an interesting
- problem with it. Every now and then if you try to open a new xterm or some
- application tries to spawn off a new process, the OS claims that there are
- 'no more processes',and the system begins to hang. If I kill some of
- the processes it recovers and allows normal execution.
-
- We thought that we are really running out of processes and consequently we used
- SAM to set the total number of processes to 1100, and max. user process limit
- is set to 250. After these changes the problem still exists. I used the top
- utility to check the number of processes at the point in time when I got the
- no more processes error, and found that there were at most 70-80 total processes
- in the system. We also suspected that maybe the swap space is not configured
- correctly, but using monitor utility I was able to determine that swap space
- utilization was at less than 50% and memory utilization was around 80%. I am not
- sure what else could be going wrong with the system!
-
- Did anyone out there had this sort of problem with their system. Any ideas about
- what's going on? I would appreciate any help/hints leading to the solution of
- this problem. This problem has kept us from utilizing our system to its
- capability, and is getting really frustrating.
-
- Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
- Please reply via e-mail to:
-
- vivek@eecom.gatech.edu
- or
- gt8236a@prism.gatech.edu
-
- Vivek
-
- P.S. Thanks to all the people who responded to my earlier query about disktab
- info. on the Fujitsu drive. I really appreciate all the input.
- --
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- E-mail: gt8236a@prism.gatech.edu Vivek Garg, Graduate Student
- garg@udel.edu Dept. of Computer Engineering
- vivek@eecom.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology
-