Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:27:17 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maximum number of forked processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103192451.29009E-100000@darkstar.home> In-Reply-To: <19971104113110.52901@lemis.com>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 Tentatively, I am thinking of incrementing a counter when a process is forked and decrementing it when a SIGCLD is received. However, I don't know what standard procedure is in this matter. Charles Mott
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