From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 12:16:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21574 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21566 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA01306; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:15:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Why are there limits in processes? Don't have something like that under > linux as far as I know. There are limits in Linux, they're just set high. The limits are there since the kernel has to allocate space in it's internal tables. The limits are fairly arbitrary, they can be changed. > Isn't there an option to turn off all limits? the shell command 'ulimit' will sometimes do this. If you're on 2.2.2 then the login.conf restrictions are in place. See login.conf(5) for details in adjusting these limits. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo