Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:44:40 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes Message-ID: <20000105214440.B14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Alexey N. Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> > Now, I issue 'sysctl kern.maxproc', which yields 'kern.maxproc: 276'
> > Cool so far.
> > But when I do 'ulimit -a|grep proc' gives me 'max user processes 275'
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> ``ulimit'' is a builtin command of your shell. You didn't say
> which shell you're using, so I can only guess that it reserves
> one process for some reason (maybe for itself?). Maybe having
> a look at the source code might be enlightening.
I think it's more likely getting the kern.maxprocperuid sysctl involved
somehow.
ben@magnesium:~$ sysctl -a | grep maxproc
kern.maxproc: 532
kern.maxprocperuid: 531
ben@magnesium:~$ grep maxproc /sys/conf/param.c
int maxproc = NPROC; /* maximum # of processes */
int maxprocperuid = NPROC-1; /* maximum # of processes per user */
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