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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:17:08 +0200
From: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@trance.olari.clinet.fi>
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Subject: kern/971: Default limits for number of processes per user ridiculously low
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>Number:         971
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Default limits for number of processes per user ridiculously low
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 25 15:20:02 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tatu Ylonen
>Organization:
Helsinki University of Technology
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	Single-user machine, i486-100, 24M ram, 4GB disk.
	Kernel with maxusers 100.

>Description:

	The default maxusers value in the distribution kernel is too low for
	use as a single-user workstation.

	Even when maxusers is increased, the limit for number of processes
	per user does not appear to increase, but must be increased with
	"limit maxproc 1000" or something like that.  The default limit
	appears to be 40, which isn't good for anything.  Count X, a
	few xterms, netscape or two, a few emacses, some rsh/ssh processes,
	and a compilation or debugger.  It is not possible to use a machine
	with maxproc 40, and changing it is annoying since if you don't
	do it at login, new xterms and emacses started from window manager
	will again have the minuscule limit.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	
	Make the default soft limit grow with maxusers.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: