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Subject: Re: max num of user procs = 64
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:51:25 +0800 (WST)
From: "Stephen Darragh" <stephen@belgarath.it.com.au>
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> How do I increase the limit on the number of processes a user can run on the
> system.

In your compilation configuration file (the one you run the 'config'
program on), add the line :

options		"CHILD_MAX=xxx"

(xxx being the default number of processes you want per user parent process.)

You probably should also increase the open files limit to go with this :

options		"OPEN_MAX=xxx"

... Stephen