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From: Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: where is maxproc set initially?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:01:06 -0600
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Hi:
	This may be a fairly trivial question:
>limit
...
maxproc         40

For the life of me I can't find out where this soft limit is set. Notice
that
>limit -h
...
maxproc         unlimited,

so there is no simple relation between the two numbers. The above limit
isn't set in any system-wide configuration file, nor in the kernel
configuration or set in any rc.* scripts. Where is it built in?

Vlad.