From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 15:55:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14941 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14933 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:55:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14418; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <351AEAE7.ABA596F4@dal.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:55:19 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Look, Joseph" CC: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: max user processes and max open files setting References: <813E52C581EED011B6F400805FA6BDE8E7983E@FGMAIL01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look, Joseph wrote: > > In FreeBSD 2.1.0 I am able to put the following lines in the kernel file > and all users will have the max user processes and max open files that I > specified ( I am using the ulimit -a on bash to see the setting): > options "CHILD_MAX=128" > options "OPEN_MAX=128" > > Now in 2.2.5, I am not able to do the same. I include the same lines in > my kernel file but when I use the ulimit -a command, the max user > processes and max open files are both set to 64 only(which I think is > the default value). > > How can I set this parameters like I did it in 2.1.0? You want to take those options *out* of your kernel config file and read the man page for login.conf. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message