From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 22:10:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.209.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5144A14E52 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 6556 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 06:09:08 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 06:09:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08954; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:08:35 +0600 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:08:34 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes In-Reply-To: <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll surely look in the sources; I'm using bash-1.14.7 btw ;-) On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, 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. > > Regards > Oliver ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message