From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 21:50:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA00312 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 21:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00307 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 21:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA04627; Mon, 27 May 1996 21:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605280449.VAA04627@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "matthew c. mead" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 27 May 96 11:22:31 -0400. <199605271522.LAA05548@Glock.COM> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:49:53 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone know why CHILD_MAX for the kernel and CHILD_MAX >in the /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h are different (128 and 40 >respectively)? I'm running into the problem of having too few >processes available. If I redefine the define in syslimits.h to >128 will I be able to run right away, or am I correct in >presuming that I'm going to have to rebuild things? What all >will I have to rebuild? If you're running tcsh, you can just use the... limit maxproc 128 or unlimit ... commands. (Unlimit, of course, sets it to its maximum value -- 1044 on my machine.) Other shells can do the same thing with similar commands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------