Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:30:13 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes Message-ID: <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Alexey N. Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> Now, I issue 'sysctl kern.maxproc', which yields 'kern.maxproc: 276'
> Cool so far.
> But when I do 'ulimit -a|grep proc' gives me 'max user processes 275'
>
> Any comments?
``ulimit'' is a builtin command of your shell. You didn't say
which shell you're using, so I can only guess that it reserves
one process for some reason (maybe for itself?). Maybe having
a look at the source code might be enlightening.
Regards
Oliver
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