On 19/4/04 12:35 pm, "Greg Rudd" <G.Rudd_at_isu.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
The problem was fixed by doing two things.
1. A number of users had "ulimit -s 4000" in their .profile files. By
removing this command gave the users effected the system default stack size
32Mb
2. Increasing the max-per-proc-stack-size to 320M
Thanks all
> Hi all
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> When I try to exicute the mail command I seem to get the following error
> message .
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> Command:
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> echo "test from greg" | mailx -s "test" <someones email address>
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> I seem to get the following error message from dec threads
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> %DECthreads bugcheck (version V3.18-150), terminating execution.
> % Reason: stkGet: proc stack hard limit too low for initialization
> % Running on () on AlphaServer GS320 6/731, 6144Mb; 4 CPUs, pid 374237
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> Te following Kernel variables are set in the proc section
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> max_per_proc_stack_size = 33554432
> per_proc_data_size = 10737418240
> max_per_proc_data_size = 10737418240
> max_per_proc_address_space = 10737418240
> per_proc_address_space = 4294967296
> max_proc_per_user = 16192
> max_threads_per_user = 1024000
> per_proc_stack_size = 33554432
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> Also when we try to increase the users ulimit stack size to 8192k we get the
> following message:
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> ulimit exceeds allowable limit.
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> Is this a bug or is that we have something set wrong in the proc section.
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> Thanks in advance --greg
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> Machine details.
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> Operating system Tru64 5.1a Pk6 Connected to hsv110 storage
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Received on Mon Apr 26 2004 - 02:31:52 NZST