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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



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