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From: Alex Nash <nash@Mcs.Net>
To: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: changing limit of the number of processes
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On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote:

> Just wondering, how do I change the limit to the number of processes an
> account can run?  I tried to modify /etc/login.conf, but it does not
> seem to matter.  At about 100 processes, it stops any attempt to create
> another process.

Look into the following sysctl variables:

   kern.maxproc
   kern.maxprocperuid

Alex