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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Upping the default # of processes in 2.2?
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As for the default per-user limits, I'm running tcsh and have this in
/etc/csh.cshrc:

	limit maxproc 100

which seems to work pretty well!

-Chris


On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> The login classes will allow me to do it in 3.0-current, but I need it
> in 2.2.
> 
> I thought that adding the following lines of code to /etc/rc.local would
> work, but it doesn't.
> 
> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxproc=300
> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=299
> 
> I still run out of processes on my 'workstation', since it uses the
> default process limit of 40.  Is there a sysctl I can change to modify
> this behavior?  Should there be?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nate
>