From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 06:08:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA25502 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 06:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA25476 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 06:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA04475 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 05:08:12 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA11478; Tue, 28 May 1996 08:05:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199605281205.IAA11478@Glock.COM> Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:05:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605280449.VAA04627@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at May 27, 96 09:49:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/