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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How to increase # of process a user can have open??? Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:37:02 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4itvse$3n8@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4isao1$bim@ruby.gryffin.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dpfeiffe@inav.net (David Pfeiffer) writes: > This is probably a very elementary question, but here goes... > > How do I increase the number of processes a user can have open at any given > time? Any/all replies welcome. The limit builtin of the csh does it, as well as the ulimit builtin of the Bourne-alike shells (though not the original 4.4BSD-lite one, so i don't know about BSD/OS). limit maxproc 100 or ulimit -u -S 100 -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j