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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: 24 Aug 1995 10:19:30 +0200
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Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> 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).
<sys/syslimits.h>:
#ifndef CHILD_MAX
#define CHILD_MAX 40 /* max simultaneous processes */
#endif
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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