gregoire@Thalatta.COM (Keith Gregoire) (03/08/88)
I am bumping heads with various stock system limits of SVR2 UNIX running on a VAX 11/750. The nasty message I would like to eliminate right now is the "Inode Table overflow" that often occurs during periods of heavy use. Could someone please e-mail me adb patch instructions for upping this parameter in the kernel? This installation does not have a source code license. Thanks in advance. -- In-Real-Life: Keith Gregoire, Thalatta Corporation, (+1 206 643 7187) Domain: gregoire@Thalatta.COM Path: uw-beaver!uw-entropy!thebes!gregoire
mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) (03/09/88)
In article <146@thebes.Thalatta.COM>, gregoire@Thalatta.COM (Keith Gregoire) writes: > I am bumping heads with various stock system limits of SVR2 UNIX > running on a VAX 11/750. The nasty message I would like to eliminate > right now is the "Inode Table overflow" that often occurs during > periods of heavy use. Could someone please e-mail me adb patch instructions > for upping this parameter in the kernel? This installation does not have > a source code license. Thanks in advance. You should still be able to tune the kernel if you've really got SVR2. Edit /etc/master.d/kernel, and change "NINODE" and "NFILE" to how many i-nodes you think you will need in the kernel, you can double what you have, or make it around 5 * NPROC (five times the maximum number of procs). Then do this: # cp /unix /unix.old # cd /boot # mkboot -k KERNEL # touch /etc/system # shutdown -y -g60 -i6 This will change the table size in the kernel, and reboot the system with a new version of /unix. -- Mikel Manitius mikel@codas.att.com
pwy@pyuxe.UUCP (Peyton Yanchurak) (03/11/88)
In article <3773@codas.att.com>, mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes: > In article <146@thebes.Thalatta.COM>, gregoire@Thalatta.COM (Keith Gregoire) writes: > > I am bumping heads with various stock system limits of SVR2 UNIX > > running on a VAX 11/750. The nasty message I would like to eliminate > > right now is the "Inode Table overflow" that often occurs during > > periods of heavy use. Could someone please e-mail me adb patch instructions > > for upping this parameter in the kernel? This installation does not have > > a source code license. Thanks in advance. > > You should still be able to tune the kernel if you've really got SVR2. > > Edit /etc/master.d/kernel, and change "NINODE" and "NFILE" to how many > i-nodes you think you will need in the kernel, you can double what you > have, or make it around 5 * NPROC (five times the maximum number of procs). > > Then do this: > > # cp /unix /unix.old > # cd /boot > # mkboot -k KERNEL > # touch /etc/system Sorry, but your procedures are for a 3B2, VAX running System V Rel 2 (or Release 2 Version 2) have their tunable parameters in in : /usr/src/uts/vax/cf/dfile cd /usr/src/uts/vax/cf edit the dfile config dfile make VER=myver cd .. cp unixmyver /unixmyver mv unix ounx ln /unixmyver /unix sync;sync You can then reboot. Some shutdown files let you place your new unix as /nunix. when it shutdowns it will do the linking automaticly, look in /etc/shutdown to be sure. If your have the required libraries under /usr/src/uts/vax and a C compiler you may not need the source code for the kernel which is found under /usr/src/uts/vax/[os]|[ml]|[io]. Peyton Yanchurak Bellcore pyuxe!pwy