Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:54:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE? Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023084622.2752D-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971023030651.02177@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > I've send CHILD_MAX to 512 on my news server, which (used) to have the effect > of making the default maximum procs set to 512.. Bonus. Under 2.2.5-RELEASE > it doesnt appear to be having any effect :( The only thing I can think of is, > its placement in the config file is order important, or its no longer > supported? If the latter, how do you effect the same change in 2.2.5? init uses the "daemon" entry in /etc/login.conf to set process resource limits before executing /etc/rc; it appears to me that the "maxproc" entry (maxproc=256) is the one you need to adjust (see also login.conf(5) and getcap(3)). Hope that solves your problem, Guy Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory
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