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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: increasing kern.maxproc
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kern.maxproc cannot be changed.  It is a read-only variable.  If you need
to up this, change the maxusers option in your kernel config, and
recompile.  For my busy systems, I up maxusers to 256 which gives me 4116
maxproc's.  You should decide what works for you.

maxprocperuid can be changed via sysctl.  It's allowable values are <
maxproc.  It's best you put this in your /etc/sysctl.conf file. e.g.:

kern.maxprocperuid=3D999

Joe Clarke

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Len Conrad wrote:

> Where does one do it?
>
> mgw1# sysctl -a | grep maxproc
> kern.maxproc: 532
> kern.maxprocperuid: 531
>
> /boot/loader.conf
> kern.maxproc=3D"1000"
> kern.maxprocperuid=3D"1000"
>
> doesn=B4t work.
>
> Len
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