Solaris 9 performance issue

[nyck]

I have a V890 running solaris9 and it seems when I reach 4000 processes on the box it starts to spawn hordes of zombies processes which I'm unable to remove. Has anyone come across this issue or can point me in the right direction to solving this problem?

 

[Annihilannic]

Sounds like an application (which one?) issue rather than OS, although some kernel tunables may need adjusting if you need to run that many processes under normal operation. I had a glance at a nearby Solaris 10 box and v.v_proc (maximum number of processes) is set by default to 3946, which sounds quite similar to your number, maybe that's the one that needs to be adjusted?

Annihilannic.