ORIGINAL POSTING:
I need to increase the number of max users from 128 to 512.
>From the docs, it looked simple:
1) I modified the kernel config file to make the change
in number of processes.
2) Ran /etc/config and built the kernel
3) mv /vmunix /vmunix.old
4) /etc/halt
After halting the system and rebooting from the prom prompt,
the system only comes up part way then pops back to the
'ok' prompt. Hmmm ... Any ideas? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
SUMMARY:
In the first place, big boo-boo in posting: In 3) I meant to
say 'cp' instead of 'mv'. So, the procedure was correct, however,
the problem was that the maxusers for the sun4m kernel is 225
(an estimated number, as noted in the docs). So, I complied,
and it worked.
Since I needed to do this in order to accommodate some additional
Xterminal hookups, one person (thanks, Glenn) also gave me a formula
to figure out how many maxusers to set for a given number of
Xterminals. It turns out that maxusers is not the problem at all,
but because I didn't have enough swap on my server for all these
Xt's.
Thanks to all who replied to help out a fellow overworked system
administrator <smile>:
Jeff Nieusma
Dan Lorenzini
Dean Grover
Peter Samuel
Glenn Satchell
James Kilborn
Jeff Wasilko
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