From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 23 11:05:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA15262 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.5.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA15241 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA15566; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:05:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd015530; Thu Oct 23 11:05:30 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28160; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:05:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710231805.LAA28160@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE? To: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:05:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Guy Helmer" at Oct 23, 97 08:54:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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)). Out of curiosity, what is the function of establishing a limit on rc itself, as opposed to only the things rc runs? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.