In article <6ppkun$n4v11@news.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> wrote:
> John McCabe wrote :
> >I�ve had a rummage around in the man pages, and found that the error
> >mentioned here is EAGAIN. This suggests that it is the fork() call that
> >is failing, probably due to the number of processess running, either due
> >to the value of NPROC or CHILD_MAX. I can�t find NPROC itself, although
> >there are a couple of NPROC_*** system limits set to 2, however CHILD_MAX
> >is set to 150.
>
> The place you set things like the total no of processes is stune. At least
that
> is what it is on my Irix 6.2 at work. Stune is found in /var/sysgen.

I had a problem under Irix 6.2 where timed (or was it timeslave?) kept getting
killed as soon as I started it with an error code of EAGAIN. It turned out to
be a known OS problem that was solved with an OS patch. You may want to check
the SGI developer's web site.

T.E.D.

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