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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.netvoyage.net!digital!bogawa From: bogawa@digital.netvoyage.net (Bryan Ogawa at Work) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0.5 problem- process table too small (odd circumstances) Date: 28 Dec 1995 00:41:17 -0800 Organization: Netvoyage Internet Access Provider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <bogawa.820138847@digital> NNTP-Posting-Host: digital.netvoyage.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) I have a problem with 2.0.5 FreeBSD. First, the problem: I'm recompiling the kernel so that we can have more than 32 simultaneous users. I think I've found (and fixed) a few issues with this (e.g.--you need to add more pty devices for this to work). To test it out, I'm compiling a kernel for a test machine on our "real" machine. The "real" machine is a P90 w/ 64 megs of RAM, and SCSI. the test machine is a cyrix 486/66 w/ 8 megs and 100 (or so) megs of IDE storage for freebsd. As you might imagine, there's no source on the test machine, so I've been recompiling the kernel on the other machine, then moving it over via ftp. After moving it over, I install it with the following command: install -c -m 555 -o root -g wheel -fschg kernel / This works, I can boot, I can get networks (in fact, I'm typing this in on an xterm telnetted from that machine as I write), but I'm limited to 42 (or thereabout) processes (which is annoying since I'm trying to screen my way through all 64 possibilities). I'm wondering if I'm missing something--looking at the LINT file right now shows me some alternatives I haven't tried, so I will try them to try to rule them out, but I'm not convinced that they will. I *have* set maxusers to something beyond 1 or 10 or anything... my last two kernels were set to 48 and 64 . so, my questions: Is this too much? Am I missing something? does this have to do with something else, like the procfs or something else? the error I get is cannot fork... is this a bug or something? If you have any ideas, if you could email me at bogawa@netvoyage.net (and post as well, if you wish), that would be great. I'll try to read the newsgroups but sometimes my site drops stuff. :( bryan -- Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at.. <URL: http://www.netvoyage.net/~help/>