Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:34:26 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes Message-ID: <3873FF32.7F57B290@confusion.net> References: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000105214440.B14126@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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What's the best way to set up per user limits on this sort of thing
other than the default (maxproc-1)?
Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> > Alexey N. Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> > > Now, I issue 'sysctl kern.maxproc', which yields 'kern.maxproc: 276'
> > > Cool so far.
> > > But when I do 'ulimit -a|grep proc' gives me 'max user processes 275'
> > >
> > > Any comments?
> >
> > ``ulimit'' is a builtin command of your shell. You didn't say
> > which shell you're using, so I can only guess that it reserves
> > one process for some reason (maybe for itself?). Maybe having
> > a look at the source code might be enlightening.
>
> I think it's more likely getting the kern.maxprocperuid sysctl involved
> somehow.
>
> ben@magnesium:~$ 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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