From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 21 03:20:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA27210 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 03:20:50 -0800 Received: from ibmPCUG.CO.UK (mmdf@Alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK [192.68.174.71]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA27175 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 03:20:36 -0800 From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id aa17251; 21 Feb 95 10:38 GMT Subject: Re: max num of user procs = 64 To: Stephen Darragh MMDF-Warning: Unable to confirm address in preceding line at alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 10:38:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Darragh" at Feb 21, 95 01:51:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 585 Message-ID: <9502211038.aa19466@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How do I increase the limit on the number of processes a user can run on the > > system. > In your compilation configuration file (the one you run the 'config' > program on), add the line : > options "CHILD_MAX=xxx" > (xxx being the default number of processes you want per user parent process.) > You probably should also increase the open files limit to go with this : > options "OPEN_MAX=xxx" > ... Stephen As it says in the LINT config... aarrggh! :-) Thanks for waking me up. BTW, that LINT config is interesting.. thanks jkh! Regards, Jake Dias PC User Group, UK