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From: Larry Riedel <larryr@autores.hotspot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase max user processes?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 03:00:21 -0700
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gorski@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de wrote:
> Is there anyone who can tell me how to change (increase) max user processes??
> Currently this is set to 40 (CHILD_MAX).

I don't know what the official way is, but I did it by changing the config
file for my kernel in /sys/i386/conf.  The LINT file in that directory had
an example entry for "options CHILD_MAX".


Larry