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Jason <jason@playgal.com> wrote:

[ Playgal.COM?  *There's* a new FreeBSD marketing distinction for the web
page, fellas.  "FreeBSD even drives some of the many porn sites on the
Internet."  ]

> Could anyone with freebsd skills living in fort lauderdale please contact
> me for help.we need to increase the number of processes that apache can
> spawn.

You might try:

1. Bumping up kern.maxprocperuid via sysctl:

        sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid <n>

   From sysctl(3):

   KERN_MAXPROCPERUID
             The maximum number of concurrent processes the system will allow
             for a single effective uid.  This limit only applies to processes
             with an effective uid of nonzero at the time of a fork request.
             Processes that have already been started are not affected if the
             limit is changed.

2. Bumping up CHILD_MAX in the kernel.  From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT:

        #
        # Under some circumstances it is convenient to increase the defaults
        # for the maximum number of processes per user and the maximum number
        # of open files files per user.  E.g., (1) in a large news server, user
        # `news' may need more than 100 concurrent processes.  (2) a user may
        # need lots of windows under X.  In both cases, it may be inconvenient
        # to start all the processes from a parent whose soft rlimit on the
        # number of processes is large enough.  The following options work by
        # changing the soft rlimits for init.
        #
        options         CHILD_MAX=128

See `http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-bsd44.html#detail' for some more
good hints.
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