lclaudio@wnyosi2.arpa (Lester Claudio) (12/06/88)
To all, I've been getting this message for the past week on our console, it reads "text: table is full". I have no idea why this message is coming up but it even affects me when I try to get a process status. When I try to execute the ps -agux command to check the process status I get a message that my process was killed! Does anyone have a solution to this problem? What is causing this message to come up and why is it affecting my command execution? If anyone has any ideas please feel free to respond to this message. We have a SUN 3/160 running BSD 4.2 UNIX. Thank You, Lester Claudio NARDAC Washington DC OSI LAB lclaudio@wnyosi2.arpa Lester
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (12/07/88)
in article <17721@adm.BRL.MIL>, lclaudio@wnyosi2.arpa (Lester Claudio) says: > > > To all, > I've been getting this message for the past week on our > console, it reads "text: table is full". Welcome to the Wunnerful World of Sun! What you are seeing is indicitive of running out of space in certain kernel tables. Fix is to up the MAXUSERS configuration parameter in the /sys/conf/GENERIC or /sys/conf/[insert your machine name here] file, and re-make the kernel. This process is dealt with in the Sun Administration manual under "Reconfiguring the Kernel", or some such. All our machines are set to "maxusers 16", and while this does not really mean that the maximum number of users we can have on our machines is 16, it is used to set aside space in the kernel for data. Feel free to mail me direct if you need help. RR. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Raisch - TechnoJunkie & UnixNut| UseNet: {uunet,mailrus}!frith!raisch Network Software Group-301 Comp.Center| InterNet: raisch@frith.egr.msu.edu Michigan State University, E. Lansing | ICBMNet: 084 28 50 W / 42 43 29 N ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The meek WILL inherit the Earth, (Some of us have other plans). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (12/07/88)
In article <17721@adm.BRL.MIL> lclaudio@wnyosi2.arpa (Lester Claudio) writes: >... "text: table is full". ... We have a SUN 3/160 running BSD 4.2 UNIX. No, you have a Sun-3/160 running SunOS; SunOS is not 4.2BSD. It is *based on* 4.2BSD, and hence inherits some of its bugs, but has some fixed and other new ones thrown in. In particular, you are running one of the SunOS releases that has the text table bug added. The best solution is to upgrade to a more recent SunOS. You can also delay the inevitable by recompiling the kernel with a larger NTEXT, either by changing the rule that determines NTEXT from the configuration-file `maxusers' parameter (found in `param.c'), or by raising maxusers directly. Short of doing that, the fix is to reboot. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris