Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:31:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maximum number of forked processes Message-ID: <19971104113110.52901@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103161157.28883A-100000@darkstar.home>; from Charles Mott on Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:16:36PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103161157.28883A-100000@darkstar.home>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 04:16:36PM -0700, Charles Mott wrote: > How does one control the maximum number of forked processes from within > the parent process? I suppose the answer is "manually". setrlimit(2) allows you to limit the number of processes (=forks) per user, but I don't know of anything that would limit the number of children of a process. > Since this is an elementary question but regards programming, I was > uncertain whether to send it to -questions or -hackers. In fact, I'd think that this is worthy of -hackers, so I'm following up there. Greg
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