From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 18 08:45:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24450 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24438 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:45:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA14283 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:53:44 +0200 (SAT) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 14281; Thu Jun 18 17:52:51 1998 From: Graham Wheeler Message-Id: <199806181550.RAA15125@cdsec.com> Subject: kern.maxproc in 2.2.6 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:50:34 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-h4.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I notice that kern.maxproc is readonly in 2.2.6, while it was read-write in 2.2.2. Is there a good reason for this, and will I break the kernel if I change it back to read-write? If it can't be made read-write, is there some other way of changing the upper limit? TIA Graham -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message