Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix Configuration and Configuration Limits Keywords: XENIX configuration Message-ID: <3749@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 00:50:14 GMT References: <199@stca77.stc.oz> <200@stca77.stc.oz> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 57 In article <200@stca77.stc.oz> peter%stca77@stcns3.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) writes: > >Is Xenix Configuration documented anywhere? Can anyone give me references >to some books? > >Can anyone give me a reasonable explanation of what all the IPC >configuration options do? >MSGMNI and MSGTQL seem self-explanatory and seem to behave the way I >would expect from their brief descriptions. My attempts to change the >other configuration values have generally not had the effect I expected. > >I am runing SCO Xenix Release 2.2.1 on a 286. Does anyone know of any ways >to increase the following parameters: >1) maximum number of open files (NFILE) (currently 400) >2) number of message queues (MSGMNI) (currently 40) >3) number of message headers (MSGTQL) (currently 100) >4) total number of bytes in message queues (currently 8192, but I don't > know why) >Are these limits eased in the 386 version? the configuration is quite simple for 2.2.1 and is sort of menu driven. you need to run the 'configure' program in /usr/sys. that should ask you all of the questions. then run link_xenix or something like that and reboot. as for the limits you have, are they too small??? my ghod, my 48 user 68020 machine only has 300 file table entries. what do you expect??? this is the configuration info for rpp386, as told by the soon-to-be-posted crash program: buffers 512 calls 30 inodes 100 e_inodes 100 files 100 e_files 100 mounts 8 e_mounts 8 procs 60 e_procs 19 texts 40 e_texts 40 clists 64 sabufs 64 maxproc 30 hashbuf 512 hashmask 511 for two to eight users these numbers should be just fine. perhaps you could enlighten us on how many users you have? - john. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes