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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Limit to max no processes per user?
Date: 23 Aug 1995 00:51:59 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <DDIBu9.9J0@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> <416jal$khn@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <419ng1$qeq@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <41bojq$r4v@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>
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In article <41bojq$r4v@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>, Brent Paulson <paulson@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> It's a kernel thing. It's located in /usr/src/sys/conf/param.c
>
>excerpt from param.c:
>
>#define NPROC (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS)
>int maxproc = NPROC; /* maximum # of processes */
>int maxprocperuid = NPROC-1; /* maximum # of processes per user */
>int maxfiles = NPROC*2; /* system wide open files limit */
This is the absolute process limit though. When I start up tcsh,
I am given 40 processes by default. When I do an "unlimit", then I
get 179 processes (20+16*10-1). I was wondering about the default
limit, which sounds like a shell thing (although I only see a single
setrlimit() in the csh code).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org