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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, mmead@Glock.COM
Subject: Re: more on CHILD_MAX
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>    Well, I redefined CHILD_MAX to 128 in the kernel.  I didn't
>touch the syslimits.h #define of 40.  I can now run 48 processes,
>and when I try a 49th it says "job table full" rather than the

This sounds like a shell limit.   Perhaps your shell believed the
advertised limit of 40.

Bruce