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From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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Subject: Re: Limti of processes per user
To: ck@toplink.net (Christian Kratzer)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:43:32 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603050735.IAA07584@toplink1.toplink.net> from "Christian Kratzer" at Mar 5, 96 08:35:27 am
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options	"CHILD_MAX=##"
Also might want to check the 'maxusers' setting in your kernel config 
file, if it's set particularly low.

or, since you asked about sysctl:
kern.maxproc
kern.maxprocperuid

(from man sysctl)

I'm actually not sure if these work, though. :-)  Either that, or the 
shell sets the values lower when it starts.

Lo and behold, Christian Kratzer once said:
> 
> Hi
> 
> is there a hardcoded limit on the number of simultaneous processes
> or shells for a user.  I often run into "cannot fork" errors when I 
> work with several xterms on multiple desktops on FreeBSD 2.0r and 2.1r.
> 
> I have checked sysctl -a but could not find anything that would be 
> appropriate.
> 
> Do I have to recompile the kernel to raise the limit or is there some
> other way (perhaps on a per user basis) ?
> 
> Greetings
> Christian
> 
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