steve@hite386.UUCP (Steve Hite) (02/09/90)
Larry Snyder, sysop of the Northern Star Communications BBS, was
gracious enough to send me his stune file so I could compare mine with
his to try and figure out why my system hangs (total lockup) if I'm in
a VP/iX session and don't enter something on the keyboard for about
15 minutes. The asterisks in-between the 2nd and 3rd columns are the ones
that differ. Other than NBUF, I don't see any major differences.
I have 8 meg in my system and just used Interactive's 8 meg configuration
in the kconfig system menu. I had this problem solved at one time but
my stune file bit the dust when I reformatted my disk. There was a
discussion in Summer '89 about lock-ups in 386/ix and what parameters to
"up" to help avoid them. You got it, I don't remember which ones to change.
I have absolutely no experience with system tuning and there are
quite a few people who have e-mailed me requesting follow-ups to what
I find out about it, but the funny thing is nobody is responding. Could
a system tuning guru write an epistle to the net explaining the most
important parameters to be concerned about to help avoid system lock-ups
with Interactive's 386/ix v2.0.2 (or any PC-based Unix for that matter)?
I believe this is a known problem to Interactive and would appreciate
it if a representative could respond. All I can do now is "up" the NBUF
and hope it helps. THANKS!!
*ident "@(#)stune 2.4 - 88/07/21"
Mine ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry (Larry Snyder)
NBUF 600 * NBUF 1200
NPROC 100 NPROC 100
MAXUP 30 MAXUP 30
NCLIST 200 NCLIST 200
SHLBMAX 8 SHLBMAX 8
NOFILES 20 NOFILES 20
NSTREAM 96 * NSTREAM 64
NQUEUE 400 * NQUEUE 256
NBLK4096 4 NBLK4096 4
NBLK2048 32 NBLK2048 32
NBLK1024 32 NBLK1024 32
NBLK512 32 NBLK512 32
NBLK256 64 NBLK256 64
NBLK128 256 * NBLK128 128
NBLK64 256 NBLK64 256
NBLK16 256 NBLK16 256
NBLK4 128 NBLK4 128
NINODE 400 NINODE 400
NS5INODE 400 NS5INODE 400
NFILE 400 NFILE 400
NMOUNT 25 NMOUNT 25
NREGION 350 NREGION 350
NHBUF 256 NHBUF 256
NPBUF 20 NPBUF 20
NAUTOUP 15 * NAUTOUP 120
BDFLUSHR 1 BDFLUSHR 1
MAXPMEM 0 MAXPMEM 0
FLCKREC 100 FLCKREC 100
VHNDFRAC 16 VHNDFRAC 16
GPGSLO 25 GPGSLO 25
GPGSHI 40 GPGSHI 40
MAXUMEM 4096 MAXUMEM 4096
GPGSMSK 1056 GPGSMSK 1056
MAXFC 1 MAXFC 1
MAXSC 1 MAXSC 1
MINARMEM 40 MINARMEM 40
MINASMEM 40 MINASMEM 40
NSTRPUSH 9 NSTRPUSH 9
STRLOFRAC 80 STRLOFRAC 80
STRMEDFRAC 90 STRMEDFRAC 90
NLOG 3 NLOG 3
MSGMAP 100 MSGMAP 100
MSGMAX 2048 MSGMAX 2048
MSGMNB 4096 MSGMNB 4096
MSGMNI 50 MSGMNI 50
MSGTQL 40 MSGTQL 40
MSGSEG 1024 MSGSEG 1024
SEMMAP 10 SEMMAP 10
SEMMNI 10 SEMMNI 10
SEMMNS 60 SEMMNS 60
SEMMNU 30 SEMMNU 30
SEMMSL 25 SEMMSL 25
SEMOPM 10 SEMOPM 10
SEMUME 10 SEMUME 10
SEMVMX 32767 SEMVMX 32767
SEMAEM 16384 SEMAEM 16384
SHMMAX 1048576 SHMMAX 1048576
SHMMIN 1 SHMMIN 1
SHMMNI 100 SHMMNI 100
SHMSEG 6 SHMSEG 6
SHMALL 512 SHMALL 512
ULIMIT 12288 ULIMIT 12288
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Steve Hite
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