From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 16 12:29:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.value.net (www-fr.value.net [207.33.92.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61A71532C for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by www.value.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03237 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com ([127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21349 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:39:53 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: /bin/sh limits -u doesn't seem to set the limit From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:39:53 -0700 Message-ID: <21347.924291593@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can somebody please explain to me what goes on here? ---------------------------------------------------------------- $ limits -u Resource limits (current): maxprocesses-max 512 maxprocesses-cur 64 $ limits -u 400 Resource limits (current): maxprocesses 400 $ limits -u Resource limits (current): maxprocesses-max 512 maxprocesses-cur 64 $ ---------------------------------------------------------------- What's the point of having a shell command to increase the maxproc limit if it then just immediately reverts back to exactly the same value it had before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message