DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (07/20/90)
Does anybody know how many clients you can run on the last release (not the one released on man 8th) of ISC unix, (I guess the word "prenultimate")? I am running a total of about 50 processes (most of them are daemons and spoolers for a system I am developing), and I have X on the system running both the server and the clients. What I notice is that I cannot run more than 4 or 5 X clients at the same time the spoolers and daemons are running. not including x, the system has TCP/IP, NFS - you know, the full developers system. Sometimes X reports: Notice: File table over flow, when it cant start a client, and other times it gives the message "... broken pipe from server "??", after 0 requests... blah blah blah" My system has 8 megs of memory, there should be about 6 megabytes for the X clients when the spooling and daemon and the rest of the system are fully running. Is there a parameter that one can tweak to let me run more X clients? Thanks in advance - bruce deadhead@cup.portal.com
murthy@la.excelan.com (M.D. Srinivas Murthy) (07/20/90)
In article <31891@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes: >I am running a total of about 50 processes (most of them are daemons and > >Sometimes X reports: > >Notice: File table over flow, > You can modify the kernel configuration parameters to solve this problem. As a superuser, run configure (/etc/conf/cf.d/configure) and modify the NINODE, NFILE parameters (option 3 - Files, Inodes , and Filesystems) and rebuild the kernel. Hope this helps. -murthy
jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard) (07/22/90)
In article <1577@excelan.COM>, murthy@la.excelan.com (M.D. Srinivas Murthy) writes: > In article <31891@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes: > >I am running a total of about 50 processes (most of them are daemons and > > > >Sometimes X reports: > > > >Notice: File table over flow, > > > > You can modify the kernel configuration parameters to solve this problem. > > As a superuser, run configure (/etc/conf/cf.d/configure) and modify the > NINODE, NFILE parameters (option 3 - Files, Inodes , and Filesystems) > and rebuild the kernel. > > Hope this helps. > > -murthy Just for those that don't know, the kconfig program is used instead of configure on ISC variants. James Howard Dell Computer Corp. !'s:uunet!dell!mustang!jrh (512) 343-3480 9505 Arboretum Blvd @'s:jrh@mustang.dell.com Austin, TX 78759-7299
DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (07/24/90)
few days ago I asked a question re: ISC's X not being able to handle more than 5 clients in a heavily loaded system. I got a lot of response on that one (some of them from the nice folks at ISC's x group). All reponses sugguest that I change the parameters in the kernel... that was the first thing I did when I ran into the problem - increased just about all the parameters that I could think of that had anything to do with inodes, process tables, streams, clists, etc. Didnt seem to help... I wonder if the applications that I am running are causing problems... but it shouldnt as I believe the kernel should be pretty well shielded from the nautiness of the applications... I am gonna tweak more and see... But would like to thank all those that responded... I'll report my findings. bruce deadhead@cup.portal.com