On 13 Aug 1996, I said:
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of a performance problem with our http
> server. Some of the past summaries on this list suggest increasing
> 'maxusers' and 'maxuprc' in the kernel configuration file. Well, my
> kernel configuration does list a 'maxusers', which I increased, but there
> is no mention of 'maxuprc'. Should I put it in there, or was it phased
> out in 3.2f?
Mere minutes later the replies came in. Most echoed what Mike Iglesias
<iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu> wrote:
> To change what was called maxuprc in the kernel, you can edit
> /etc/sysconfigtab and add lines that look like this:
>
> proc:
> max-proc-per-user=100
>
> I don't believe you can change maxusers this way. The nice thing about
> changing kernel params in sysconfigtab is that you only have to reboot
> to get the change to take effect.
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com also wrote the following:
> The CDROM distribution should have included a documentation
> CD. That has all the base system documentation on it in
> Bookreader format. The file system format is UFS and you
> can use dxbook to read it. Postscript copies of some
> documents are also included.
> The V4.0 version of the documentation CDROM also include
> HTML format documentation to go with the version of netscape
> that is included.
I did receive a CDROM entitled 'AlphaServer 1000 Fast Track to
Information' with the server. I ran the thing on a Windows PC, and it
was just a bunch of hardware information. I will try mounting it from
Unix and take another look at it, but I don't think it has any software
docs on it.
Many thanks to Anthony D'Atri, Mike Iglesias, Javier Aida,
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com, Stephen L. LaBelle, Dave Cherkus and Francois
ARCA-SEDDA.
- Derrick Miller
Herald-Mail Co.
Hagerstown, MD
USA
Received on Wed Aug 14 1996 - 04:07:37 NZST