Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: overload response improved Message-ID: <5733@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:54:17 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5733 Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:54:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:54:17 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 Now running a new /unix. This one attempts to give a better (in some sense) response to inode/file-table overflow, by waiting for empty slots rather than failing immediately. For our current environment (occasional transient overflows), this is probably the preferred strategy. As side issues, some minor internal improvements have been made, and the core-dumper routine has been modified to make core dumps private (i.e. rw------- rather than rw-rw-r-- or whatever). -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry