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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5 problem- process table too small (odd circumstances) Date: 28 Dec 1995 11:15:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4btu7k$5jv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <bogawa.820138847@digital> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 bogawa@digital.netvoyage.net (Bryan Ogawa at Work) writes: > This works, I can boot, I can get networks (in fact, I'm typing this in on > an xterm telnetted from that machine as I write), but I'm limited to 42 > (or thereabout) processes (which is annoying since I'm trying to screen my > way through all 64 possibilities). This is the default per-user process limit. You need to bump it only in rare occasions (e.g. for an X11 user). Ideally, it should not be modified in the kernel (though this is possible), but whereever it is appropriate, for example from the ~/.xsession. Unfortunately, csh did have a `limit' command for rather long, but /bin/sh's ulimit counterpart has been added after 2.1R. RTFM csh(1), getrlimit(2)/setrlimit(2). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)