From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 12:10:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00410 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:09:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13898; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:09:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leigh Porter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running out of user processes. In-Reply-To: <34EAAC36.270B36FB@wisper.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Leigh Porter wrote: > Hello folks, > > How do you increase the number of avaliable user processes? > sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid seems to have no effect on the > limits. I have re-built the kernel with a suitably higher CHILD_MAX > value. You're hitting login class limis. See /etc/login.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message