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From: paulson@cc.gatech.edu (Brent Paulson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Limit to max no processes per user?
Date: 22 Aug 1995 01:06:02 -0400
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
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j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>>>maxproc 40
>>
>> But is there a way to raise the default limit of 40 processes per
>>user? Is it a kernel thing or is it a shell thing?
>I think it's a kernel thing. Perhaps there's even a sysctl variable
>available for it.
It's a kernel thing. It's located in /usr/src/sys/conf/param.c
excerpt from param.c:
#define NPROC (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS)
int maxproc = NPROC; /* maximum # of processes */
int maxprocperuid = NPROC-1; /* maximum # of processes per user */
int maxfiles = NPROC*2; /* system wide open files limit */
Take care,
Brent
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