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From: esulzner@cad669.intel.com (Eric Sulzner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX system process limits
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:57:23 GMT
	<C0FFoE.MD0@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Design Technology, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

csh gives the "no more processes" message when it gets ENOMEM.  You may
be low on paging.

In article <C0FFoE.MD0@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:

   >> How can you tell the absolute limit of processes that can run on your
   >> AIX system?
   >
   >The operative commands are lsattr and chedev, applied to sys0.  There
   >are also SMIT options.  InfoExplorer will lead you to this information
   >with a compound search on "maximum AND user AND processes".

   Thanks to several people for their replies along these lines. I'm
   afraid I haven't made myself clear.  Finding out and changing the
   number of processes allowed per user is trivial on AIX. The lsattr
   command will tell you; smit will both display it and let you change it.

   Finding out how many total processes may run on the system at once
   is not trivial. Does anyone understand where this value is stored,
   or if calculated, how?

   This came about because of a sick system that kept putting out the
   message: 'No more processes' no matter who tried to start up a new
   one (not just people already running near the max).


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From: marineg@hsvaic.boeing.com (Gary Marine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX 3.2 Locks-UP (Problem Found)
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:46:54 GMT
Organization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL

Problem Review:

  The RS/6000-560 locked-up daily, no errors reported, no LED codes.
All hardware tested OK.  The system could not be accessed from the
network or the console.  The only fix was a reset.

Cause:

  A bug in the 3.2 kernel causes the system to hang when memory
scrubbing is turned on.  IBM said that memory scrubbing should be
off by default, but this doesn't appear to be true.  Once the
memory scrubbing was turned off, the system was fine.

  The following command was used to turn off memory scrubbing:

    chdev -l sys0 -amemscrub=false

  SMIT can also be used.

THANKS!!!

  Thanks to Pierre Verpeaux for providing the correct solution, and
also to all others who responded.  IBM is still searching for the
fix for this problem. 

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From: peterl@progress.COM (Peter Lauterbach)
Subject: Large number of context switching, what does it mean ?
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:12:28 GMT

Greetings,

	We were running a series of program reports, and noticed a large
number of process switching with sar (pswch/s), on the order of 350/s.
This seems rather large, but the reports were doing very heavy I/O.

	How should we interpret this ? What else should we look at ?
	The version of the O/S is 3.2
	I didn't want to include the entire sar output...

P.S  Is there any commercial or pd source (not in the code sense ) for
tuning methodologies for RS/6000s.  I have the Nutshell System Tuning book,
but some things about AIX are just so, non-standard. Thanks.

					Regards,
					Peter
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From: tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: uucp problems
Date: 5 Jan 93 03:32:38 GMT
Organization: HSC CO.

Gee, another post.

I've come across a problem with uucp between a 520 on 3.2.0 and a moto
88k box on 5.4.

I can uucp files to the moto without a problem but files coming from
the moto never make it.  I get alarms until it times out.

Intel 9600 modems, both side talking at 38400.  Doesn't matter which
side initializes the conversation.

Any more clues?

Tony
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From: woan@soda.berkeley.edu (Ronald Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: UNIX Editors
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:11:12 GMT
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks
Distribution: world
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In article <1993Jan5.151011.1@quaker> gelhard@quaker writes:
>We are in the process of perchasing a RS/6000.  Alot of the RS/6000 users are
>IBM PC and VM/CMS users familiar with KEDIT and XEDIT.  Is there an editor like
>KEDIT or XEDIT for UNIX?

The Workstation Group sells Uni-XEDIT for AIX and other UNIX flavors.

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From: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Subject: c menu program (#2)
Reply-To: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:10:17 EST

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       printf("\t\t\t(C)  Read Catia 9 track tape\n");

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From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler)
Subject: Re: DNS and .rhosts
Keywords: DNS rhosts hosts.equivn
Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:29:04 GMT

It sounds like you don't quite have DNS up and running.  Do you have an 
in-addr.arpa domain for reverse address mapping?  If not, it isn't 
going to work.


In article <BzzLGH.IB@well.sf.ca.us> nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
>I finally got DNS up and running (well, sort of...it dies frequently on
>my AIX system) and am now having trouble with .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv.
>I remember a thread a while back that said you can put in numeric IP
>addresses.  However, I don't want to have to do that.  I have tried
>these formats and none work:
>
>	hostname
>	hostname	username
>	hostname.domain.name
>	hostname.domain.name	username
>
>In my .rhosts.  The files are owned by individual users and have permissions
>of 600, as info says to do.  I CAN make rsh/rlogin/etc. work IF I put
>in numeric IP addresses.  My SE has said that even simple hostnames should
>work because it should append the default domain to simple host names
>in that file.
>
>The System is a 350 running AIX 3.2 - and an odd number of ptf's, though
>not up to 3.2.3.  Has anyone run into this before?
>
>Thank you for any information.
>
>-Nathan Lane
>Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA
>nlane@well.sf.ca.us
> 
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From: mark@ga.cs.wm.edu (Mark Raciborski)
Subject: Problem with the gated daemon
Organization: College of William & Mary, founded 1693
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:49:16 GMT

I seem to be having a problem with the "gated" daemon. I have a server with 
2 ethernet cards in it. One card is connected to a lab and the other is 
connected to our campus backbone.

After rebooting the server the netstat -r command will show the
Destination/Gateway info to the lab network. If the network is not being used
this entry seems to get deleted from the routing table. I then can't boot my
machines in the lab. My /etc/gated.conf file looks like
rip quiet;
hello quiet;
Is there someway to tell gated not to delete this entry? 

                        Thanks in advance,
                        Mark
                        mark@mail.wm.edu
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From: swan@austin.ibm.com (Randal C. Swanberg)
Subject: Re: Rebooting 520 from kernel debugger
Originator: swan@swan2.austin.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:27:35 GMT
Organization: IBM


In article <1992Dec23.193338.3753@ico.isc.com>, timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
> In the course of developing device drivers, I tend to crash the machine.
> I have the kernel debugger activated so that when the kernel panics, it
> drops into the debugger.
> 
> Is there a way to reboot the machine by giving a command to the debugger
> rather than having to go downstairs and press the big yellow button?
> 

Yes, to reboot a 'crashed' machine from the debugger, enter:

go 100

This will cause the warm IPL code to execute just as if it you had hit 
the BYB.




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From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: SCSI device mirroring
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:02:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: shieh@racerx.austin.ibm.com


In article <1993Jan12.143748.22260@ms.uky.edu>, paul@acus1.cc.uky.edu (paul linton) writes:
> I have (2) 2.2G SCSI2 harddrives hooked up via separate SCSI2 cards
> on a model 560.  I want to mirror them and can't find anything in
> info (or smit).  Anyone have a document # or info "search for" that
> would point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

Mirroring falls under the "mklvcopy" subject heading.  Search
your info under that keyword.
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From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: malloc(0) fails on AIX and nowhere else I could find ...
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:28:21 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
	<wfH=M4y00hYzAC54Zt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

jz1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (James D. Zelenka) writes:
>   Yeah, I ran into this too when I ported zephyr to AIX. There's an
>   obscure fix for this.
>
>   If you call:
>	   mallopt(1,0);

You may want to pick up the latest snapshot of the zephyr sources from
athena-dist.mit.edu; this bug has since been fixed in a more portable way.
Given that the documentation (at least in the 3.2 InfoExplorer) says
"Nothing done with the mallopt subroutine affects how memory is allocated by
the system", relying on it to cause malloc(0) to allocate memory where it
wouldn't previously is not likely to be a good long-term solution.

	-Lucien
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From: abledsoe@feenix.metronet.com (Alton Bledsoe)
Subject: Re: AIX3.2 & cu
Keywords: 3.2, cu, tty
Organization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:21:17 GMT

In article <C0qn2A.rnK@icsbelf.co.uk> ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran) writes:
>Since moving to AIX 3.2, cu`ing to devices previously used for sucessful
>communications now fail with the following:
>
>Connected
>
>Lost Carrier
>User Defined Signal 1
>
>What has changed in 3.2 to cause this ?
>
> Ian
>
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>N. Ireland.                  Fidonet:   2:252/309.6

I just ran into this change yesterday.  I thought it was some dependence
on dcd signal (Sequent once tried to tell me that this would be a posix
compliance!) but this is not the case.

If you carefully scan the manpage on 3.2 it says under the -l flag
that a phone number MUST be included:  cu -l ttyx 9=xxxxxxx.
		    ^^^^
I don't know why yet.  ( Which standard will this one be ;-) )

So I guess I write a dumb termio program to program modems now.

Hope this helps.
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From: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Subject: c menu program
Reply-To: "harry tempelman" <harry.tempelman@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:10:16 EST


Can anyone enlighten me on the following topic.

C MENU Program.
The hardware platform is RISC RS/6000, AIX 3.2.2

2 Questions:
How do I change the program with strcpy, system(cp) so that I can pass
a value down?
Is there a way to read more then one file & at the end rewind the tape?
 
 system("dd if=/dev/rmt1.1  of=/dev/tmp/"filename" ibs=1600 conv=sync");


/*       Menu program for CTad

  Date          : 29-DEC-92

  File name daddy$sys:usr\tc\apex\menu.c
  File name apex:/home/operator/c/menu.c

#include <stdio.h>   /* includes */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define CLS  system("clear");

/* prototypes of local functions */
void menu_lable();
void rmt1read();

/* global variables */
int i = 0;

/****************************************************************************/
/* the main program starts here:
   in this function we minimise the code and maximise clarity
   (divide & conquer)                                                       */
/****************************************************************************/
main()
{
    menu_lable();
    start();
}

start()
{
    char answer;
 {

     answer = getchar();
             answer = tolower(answer);

             switch (answer)
             {
                case 'a' : system("cd /u/ctad; /home/ctad/catiges"); main();
                case 'b' : system("cd /u/ctad; /home/ctad/integrator"); main();
                case 'c' : system("/home/ctad/wrtcat"); main();
                case 'd' : rmt1read();
                case 'q' : printf("menu end\n"); exit(1);
                default  : printf("\nPlease try again"); sleep(1); main();
 }
    }
return 0;
}

/****************************************************************************/
/* display menu_lable                                                       */
/****************************************************************************/

void menu_lable()

{
    CLS;
    {
       printf("\n\n\t\t\t     Main Menu\n\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(A)  IGES Conversion\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(B)  PDGS to CATIA Menu\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(C)  Write Ford Standard to CATIA\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(D)  Tape Read Menu\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(E)  Tape Write Menu\n");
       printf("\t\t\t(Q)  Quit\n");

       printf("\n\t\t\t     Choice: ");
    }
}

/****************************************************************************/
/* display rmt1read_menu                                                    */
/****************************************************************************/

void rmt1read_menu()
{
    CLS;
    {
       printf("\n\n\t\t\t     Tape Read Menu\n\n");

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From: vincent@wilbur.psu.edu (James Vincent)
Subject: FDDI General Info sought
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:37:59 GMT


Hello,
	
	We are cobsidering purchasing an FDDI setup for 6 RS/6000's
	to perform parallel computations using PVM. Has anyone had
	experience with this type of setup? Can anyone give me some
	general information about fiber optic links for the IBM's in
	general - are they proprietary, can something be purchased
	from a third party, any experiences using one or setting
	one up etc..  We are debating whether to buy the link or 
	another computer. Any help is appreciated.

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From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: Two headed 320 running 3.2
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:37:05 GMT

houghton+@cs.cmu.edu (Ricky Houghton) writes:


>    Can somone offer some help on a two headed 320 running AIX 3.2?
>
>I seem to be missing something important as I can't get X to initialize
>both heads. The only command that comes close to working, doesn't work
>very well (it crashes the system, well it hangs after it blanks both
>screens and then  puts small blip on each screen).
>
>	xinit -P11 1 -P12 2 -wrapx 
>
>Any other combination of things results in the X server starting on the
>default screen with the other screen showing no activity.

This worked for me:
	/usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit -bs -P11 2 -P12 1 -wrapx

It looks essentially the same as yours.  
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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: malloc(0) fails on AIX and nowhere else I could find ...
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:52:45 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

In article <93Jan7.012526est.169557-2@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca ("John M. Sellens") writes:
>Trying to malloc() 0 bytes on AIX fails, but works on Ultrix, IRIX,
>Dynix, SunOS, BSD, MIPS RiscOS.

It's explicitly forbidden by SVID, as I recall.  AIX is SVID
compliant.  Are any of the other systems you mentioned?  (Apparently
not.) Trying to make folks happy who think "UNIX == BSD" and those who
think, "UNIX == System V" ain't always possible.

"The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them."
From: bguest@ateam.ems.cdc.com (Brandon Guest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX 3.2 & AT&T SVR?
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:27:19 GMT
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Ceridian

Can anyone tell me precisely what version of AT&T System V AIX is
compatible with?  Looking in InfoDestroyer, it appears that it is
some flavor of SVR4.?  What is the .? level.  

Thanks in advance!

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From: abe@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Subject: Re: AIX system process limits
Summary: lsattr sys0
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:31:57 GMT

In article <C0DIIu.6x8@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:
> How can you tell the absolute limit of processes that can run on your
> AIX system?

The operative commands are lsattr and chedev, applied to sys0.  There
are also SMIT options.  InfoExplorer will lead you to this information
with a compound search on "maximum AND user AND processes".
Organization: Ege University - Computing Center
Date: Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 16:54:12 TUR
From: <BILKER@TREARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject:    searching aix equiv of mcs

The unix command mcs (manipulate the object file comment section)
                      -                          -       -
should have an AIX equivalent in some form hopefully. If anybody knows/
heard anything about this, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.


Kayhan Erciyes
Ege University Computer Eng. Dept.
BORNOVA,IZMIR
TURKEY

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From: Sean.Levy@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 3.1.5 rs6k: no more processes
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:16:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.kfH86Na00hNP1DzGpJ
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Please don't tell me to upgrade to 3.2.

I quite often get errors on my box telling my that it cannot create more
processes. This seems patently foolish, considering how much memory/disk
the thing has. How can I raise whatever limit I'm running into?

TIA,
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From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: g++ 2.3.3 unresolved/undefined symbols
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:10:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.195047.19764@news2.cis.umn.edu> hoberoi@limerick.cbs.umn.edu writes:
>Hi, I have been compiling a program (that works fine on a sun g++ 2.2.1) but
>gives the following error on the RS6000:
>0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
>                 Symbols in error (followed by references) are
>                 dumped to the load map.
>                 The -bloadmap:<filename> option will create a load map.
>__ls__FR7ostreamPCc
>__ls__FR7ostreamf
These symbols are part of the Stream class. They *should* be contained
in libg++. If they are not, rebuild libg++ -- and be sure to have the
current version: 2.3. If you don't have, you can get it from 
	prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/libg++-2.3.tar.Z

Configure and make it (use gnu-make for it) and install it afterwards.
You will probably have difficulties with g++ and debug information, so
you'd better compile it without (CFLAGS=-O2).

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From: jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com (John P. Jenkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NFS write error intrepretation
Date: 4 Jan 93 13:17:04 -0600
Organization: BP Exploration (Alaska)

we get several NFS write errors on our consoles every day in the format
nfs write error ___ on host ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
typically the error is 13 (permission) so i know it is benign but some time
ago in this conference i saw an explanation of how to intrepret the other
numbers to get the major,minor numbers, the inode, etc to find out why. 
when i used this posting to intrepret ours, the numbers didn't make sense.
this is a Sun 690 as the NFS server. can't find this in info, techlib and
IBM tech support is making this a problem. i just want the how to on
how to intrepret these numbers. if you know, please reply. thanks.
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