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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Limit to max no processes per user?
Date: 21 Aug 1995 12:34:41 +0200
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Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>>maxproc 40
>
> But is there a way to raise the default limit of 40 processes per
>user? Is it a kernel thing or is it a shell thing?
I think it's a kernel thing. Perhaps there's even a sysctl variable
available for it.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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