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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!swrinde!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to increase max user processes? Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:15:18 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <324AC836.191C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <GORSKI.96Sep26003741@axiom.somewhere.de> <324A5435.5A8@autores.hotspot.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Larry Riedel wrote: > > 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 At the risk of spawning yet another argument on this topic, also check the setting of MAXUSERS. The Handbook shows the calculation, but this parameter is used to set a number of things, including the total number of concurrent processes that the whole system will run. Figure this parameter according to the maximum number of simultaneous users you will permit, along with the max number of processes each is allowed, plus the usual system processes you may need. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |