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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

8568.0. "Strange maxdsiz value" by MSAM03::RAYMONDCHOO () Thu Jan 23 1997 21:22

    Hi,
    My customer is querying me as to why their 'maxdsiz' parameter in
    /sys/conf/BINA3  has a negative value. I append below as follows:
    
    #
    # Special options (see configuring the kernel chapter
    # in the Guide to System Administration)
    #
    timezone        0 dst 0
    dfldsiz         268435456
    maxdsiz         -2147483648 --> this parameter has a negative value!
    dflssiz         4194304
    maxssiz         67108864
    cpu             "DEC2100_A500"
    maxusers        128
    maxuprc         512
    machine         alpha
    
    Attempts to change this parameter to a positive value causes the system
    to provide only 64 processes per user. Can someone help me out here?
    
    Thanks and regards,
    Ray
T.RTitleUserPersonal
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8568.1SSDEVO::ROLLOWDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Fri Jan 24 1997 01:576
	Looks like something used a signed 32 bit integer when it 
	shouldn't have.  If this is a remotely modern version of
	the operating system, submit a QAR or IPMT.  If this is an
	older version, see if it has been fixed in a modern version.
	If they get the expect 4 GB data space, don't worry too much
	about it.  Going beyond that will tough though.