FECO INFORMATION RELEASE AB121

1.     On AT&T systems where the spooler etc. Is extremely active there have been occurrences of unix spooler
        hangs.

2.     A lpstat -t will indicate that:-

(a)the scheduler is not running

(b) amongst the information displayed will be a message stating that there are too many files open.

3.     AT&T defaults the maximum number of file descriptors per process,to 64, (hex 40).

4.     to prevent this problem from occurring, tune

Sfnolim to a ox200.

(tech serv ref 30/1/1)

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