At 01:12 PM 2/2/96 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>> We seem to have a strange problem occurring recently.  With plenty of
>disc
>>> space left on our system volume set and no space limits on HPSPOOL or
>>> OUT.HPSPOOL jobs fail to start executing.  Anything that was already
>>> executing that tries to open a spooler fails.
>
>> It looks to me like someone issued a STOPSPOOL LP.   Failing that you
>>may want to make sure no one issued a STREAMS OFF.
>
>Thanks, but we already checked that.  It seems to happen when we hit a
>certain number of spool files (around 9900).  Almost all of these are
>SPSAVEd.  Does anyone know any spooler limits that might be affecting this?
>
 
Yep, I think the actual limit is something like 9952.  That's just the maximum
number of spoolfiles that the spooler can handle. (at least under 4.0)  We
run into this one occassionally.
 
Jim
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