Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another wierd Kernel Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210194743.29893g-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802101906.OAA05894@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Rob Miracle wrote: > We are having problems spawning more than 64 processes under a given ID. > We have maxprocperuid set to 1043 (20 + 16*MAXUSERS)-1. One one machine it > works fine, on another it limits us to 63. Both machines are running with > identical CONFIG files and param.c files. MAXUSERS is set to 64. > > We have a small program that just spawns processes until it cant and > reports the number of processes spawned that we use to test this. On the > good machine, regardless of UID, it spawns out well over 900 processses as > root, and over 1020 as a given non-root UID (depends on how many other > processes are running). On the problem machine, root gets all 900+ > processes. Non-root UID's only get 63. > > sysctl reports 1043 for kern.maxprocperuid. > > We are greatly confused. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. /etc/login.conf; you're limited by login classes. the sysctl is the system hard limit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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