[comp.unix.aux] What is NPROC and MAXUP?

ephrem@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Ephrem Chemaly) (01/25/91)

In setting up X Window on A/UX, they recommend setting NPROC and MAXUP to a
value of 70.  They refer us to Chapter 2 of the User's Guide.  Well there is
nothing about those variable there.  Any help on how to set those variables
will be appreciated.


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x@springer.Apple.COM (Steve Peters) (01/29/91)

In article <1991Jan24.231101.10928@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, ephrem@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Ephrem Chemaly) writes:
|> In setting up X Window on A/UX, they recommend setting NPROC and MAXUP to a
|> value of 70.  They refer us to Chapter 2 of the User's Guide.  Well there is
|> nothing about those variable there.  Any help on how to set those variables
|> will be appreciated.

Sorry for the confusion. This piece of advice (offered in the README file in /usr/lib/X11) refers to an earlier edition of the X manual suite. NPROC and MAXUP are kernel tuning parameters, see the manual page for "kconfig (1)". The advice was intended for A/UX 1.x releases; if you're running with A/UX 2.0, NPROC and MAXUP are "factory" set at 100 and 50 respectively, these have proven adequate for all my development work.
 
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Steve Peters
X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.
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