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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 08:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM>
To:        michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CHILD_MAX
Message-ID:  <199605281205.IAA11478@Glock.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199605280449.VAA04627@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at May 27, 96 09:49:53 pm

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Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com writes:

> >    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.

	I use zsh, and I run unlimit - in fact I checked the
processes limit and it's "unlimited."  I'm still getting stopped
after 40.  Maybe it uses CHILD_MAX.


-matt

-- 
Matthew C. Mead

mmead@Glock.COM
http://www.goof.com/~mmead/



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