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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: no more processes
Date: 18 Mar 1995 08:26:55 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <3kbk7m$jbe@fu-berlin.de>
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In article <3kbk7m$jbe@fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> i've read it in the bsdi group that they have some problems with
> the NPROC which is not correctly set - i think it's the same at
> FreeBSD - i get "no more processes" after about 40 processes of my
> own on a system configured for 32 users - i can run more as root
> for instance but how to increase the number of processes per user
> (i think it should be more by default - or am i wrong ?) - t

    Check your shell resource limits:

% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        65536 kbytes
stacksize       8192 kbytes
coredumpsize    0 kbytes
memoryuse       7328 kbytes
descriptors     64 
memorylocked    4888 kbytes
maxproc         40 

% unlimit
% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        131072 kbytes
stacksize       65536 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       unlimited
descriptors     360 
memorylocked    14664 kbytes
maxproc         180 

-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org