>> Fiji (jfay) wrote: >> > try finger @host@host@host....145 times.... This should run the # of >> > processes in excess of 1500 and shoot the system load up to at least 13.5. >> > >> > You can also do a finger @hosta@hostb where hostb is a machine running >> > 2.5.1 or 2.6. Now this has not been confirmed on Solaris (x86). The bug id >> > is 4161606 but yet there is no patch available as of today. >> >> Yep, same thing happens for x86 running 2.6. >> >> ~james > >For what it's worth, the two 2.5.1 machines I currently run don't have >this problem. Both were installed using 2.5.1 HW:4/97 media and then >subsequently brought up to Generic_103640-21 via the current (ie. a few >weeks ago) 2.5.1_Recommended kit. The machines are a sparc 2 and 10. There's actually a quite simple workaround (BTW, one finger can't create 1500 processes; there's a buffer of 512 characters and you get at most 512 /(1+lenghtofhostname)*2 processes.) The quick fix is to set the number of processes per user to a acceptable value by editing /etc/system: set maxuprc = 50 This will limit the number of processes per user (not including root, but including nobody) to a small value. For certain setups, you can pick a larger system. If you dont' want to reboot, it's bit harder, but try: adb -wk v+0x1c/W<num> Casper
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