From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 15:16:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FBE154FE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 125yES-00019N-00; Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:44:40 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 125yES-0003pJ-00; Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:44:40 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:44:40 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes Message-ID: <20000105214440.B14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme wrote: > Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > Now, I issue 'sysctl kern.maxproc', which yields 'kern.maxproc: 276' > > Cool so far. > > But when I do 'ulimit -a|grep proc' gives me 'max user processes 275' > > > > Any comments? > > ``ulimit'' is a builtin command of your shell. You didn't say > which shell you're using, so I can only guess that it reserves > one process for some reason (maybe for itself?). Maybe having > a look at the source code might be enlightening. I think it's more likely getting the kern.maxprocperuid sysctl involved somehow. ben@magnesium:~$ 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 */ -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message