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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.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: FreeBSD <- - Maximum number of processes? Date: 7 May 1996 21:04:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4mods7$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mkik8$1ta@orb.direct.ca> <4mkn7t$ivp@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert) wrote: > With sysctl(8), I found the following value (which can be changed): > charm:~/News$ sysctl kern.maxproc > kern.maxproc = 1044 It can be changed, but not by means of sysctl. (It's value must be known at system init time, since several table and hash sizes are derived from it. RTFM grep(1) :) /sys/conf/param.c defines this: #define NPROC (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS) int maxproc = NPROC; /* maximum # of processes */ int maxprocperuid = NPROC-1; /* maximum # of processes per user */ ...so the correct way to bump it is tweaking `maxusers' in your config file. (And now the $ 0.02 question: what's the value of `maxusers' in your config file? :-) -- 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. ;-)