reb@quintro.uucp (Roger E. Benz) (04/10/90)
Recently we have been getting the message 'no more pcb available' and sure enough we have reached the limit for processes. Does anyone know how to increase this limit? Is 10.3 going to increase this limit? Thanks in advance. -- Roger E. Benz Glenayre/Quintron Phone = (217) 223-3211 One Quintron Way Quincy, IL UUCP: tiamat!quintro!reb@uunet or quintro!reb@lll-winken
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (04/14/90)
In article <1990Apr10.144131.7561@quintro.uucp> reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz) writes: >Recently we have been getting the message 'no more pcb available' and >sure enough we have reached the limit for processes. Does anyone >know how to increase this limit? Is 10.3 going to increase this limit? You certainly can't increase it yourself, and I assume it's non-trivial to change in the OS, or it would have been done ages ago. It happens to be regularly (like, every other day or so). I had to tell uucp not to invoke more than one uux at a time because after passing through sendmail and mailing list expansion and a few other things I regularly had 14 or more processes spawned, and I usually have 50 running anyway. Dieing with "no more pcb available" is the good part, a number of times it has died on me in such a way that I can no longer create any files or pipes and I have to hit the reset button to get out of it (or do a shut and go to lunch while all the file opens time out). Here's my vote for fixing this and fixing it soon. 64 is laughable. -kee PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S < 0:32 /etc/init 2 ? R 1238:12 null 3 ? S 1:20 purifier 4 ? S 0:01 purifier 5 ? S 1:39 unwired_dxm 6 ? S 0:00 pinger 7 ? S 0:00 netreceive 8 ? S 0:12 netpaging 9 ? S 0:37 wired_dxm 10 ? S 0:04 netrequest 90 ? S 4:49 /etc/tcpd 98 ? S 0:08 /etc/routed -f -q 101 ? S 0:00 /etc/inetd 104 ? S 0:00 /etc/ncs/llbd 109 ? S < 3:41 /etc/rgyd 113 ? S 0:59 /etc/cron 118 ? S 0:05 /sys/spm/spm 120 ? S 0:00 /etc/writed 124 ? S 0:00 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper 130 ? S 0:00 /etc/xdm 131 ? S 0:00 /etc/xdm 132 ? S < 20:37 /etc/Xapollo -D1 s+R+ 133 ? S 0:04 /etc/xdm 140 ? S 0:10 xterm -name console -iconic -title console -ls +ut 150 ? S 0:26 mwm 151 ? S 0:53 /usr/local/bin/hbiff 152 ? S 0:16 xterm -name main -title main -iconic 153 ? S 0:47 xterm -name mail -title mail -iconic 154 ? S 0:36 xterm -name news -title news -iconic 9242 ? S 0:00 - D2400 tty02 156 ttyp0 S 0:07 ksh 8884 ttyp0 S 0:52 rn 9419 ttyp0 S 0:00 /bin/sh -c Pnews -h /nazgul/.rnhead 9420 ttyp0 S 0:02 Pnews /usr/local/bin/Pnews -h /nazgul/.rnhead 9445 ttyp0 S 0:00 emacs /usr/local/bin/emacs /nazgul/.article 9449 ttyp0 S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuclient /nazgul/.article 157 ttyp1 S 0:01 ksh 181 ttyp1 S 0:00 az /nazgul/bin/az 182 ttyp1 S 1:06 /usr/local/bin/az -size 1000 162 ttyp2 S 0:18 ksh 9490 ttyp2 R 0:00 ps ax 165 ttyp3 S 0:05 -ksh 2176 ttyp3 S 1:39 tail -f /usr/adm/messages 2287 ttyp3 S 3:36 epoch 2293 ttyp4 S 0:01 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+