From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 1 5:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F1C37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 05:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) with UUCP id PUW32994; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:54:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from netch@localhost) by iv.nn.kiev.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f61Cf2K00994; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:41:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:41:02 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.maxproc Message-ID: <20010701154102.A376@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010630174654.03c870c8@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010630174654.03c870c8@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:49:27PM +0200 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 17:49:27, LConrad (Len Conrad) wrote about "kern.maxproc": > I need about 1000 processes for a high-volume mail gateway. I'm already > getting errors in peak periods with the default maxproc of 530. > > It seems I can't set this in loader.conf, as I can other read-only params. > > Do I have to install the source and recompile? No, put it to /etc/sysctl.conf. /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message