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Subject: Re: Upping the default # of processes in 2.2?
In-Reply-To: <199703050136.SAA02889@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Mar 4, 97 06:36:20 pm"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:15:54 +1030 (CST)
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying:
> > > > 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!
> > > 
> > > Except for X, which uses /bin/sh to start everything up. :(
> > 
> > So put it in your .xsession file as well.   This is why login.conf is
> > a Good Thing 8)
> 
> I did, but it doesn't seem to take. :(

It does here, but I use tcsh to run my .xsession.  I assume you translated
that to 'ulimit -u 100' before including it in your .xsession, and checked
.xsession-errors to make sure it worked?

> Nate

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