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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
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On 2003-04-05 13:59, Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 13:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>> 	ulimit -u 100
>>
>> does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in
>> /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ??
>
> I suppose ulimit would do the trick .. Are there any standard guidelines
> for how many processes to allow? This box is 1.5GHz Athlon, 512mb RAM,
> 1024mb swap ..

Anything above 100 should probably be fine for individual users, even if
they want to run X11.  You can always experiment and increase as needed.

- Giorgos