Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 07:23:47 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Max procs per user Message-ID: <199502272023.HAA17707@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>particular kernel). When looking through kernel include files, it
>appeared that there is a limit of 40 procs per user ("#define MAXUPRC
>CHILD_MAX" in /sys/sys/param.h, where CHILD_MAX is 40 in syslimits.h), but
>I was hoping there was a way around that. Perhaps I have to change the
>include files and rebuild the kernel?
User setrlimit(2), or `ulimit' in bash, or `limit' in csh... MAXUPRC
is only the default. CHILD_MAX shouldn't be defined because the limit
isn't constant.
>> In FreeBSD 2.1 you can increase this limit runtime with
>> sysctl kern.maxprocperuid
sysctl is easier to use than *limit, but less flexible.
Bruce
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