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From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD <- - Maximum number of processes?
Date: 6 May 1996 13:19:25 +0200
Organization: LSD...melts in your mind, not in your hand
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Message-ID: <4mkn7t$ivp@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>
References: <4mkik8$1ta@orb.direct.ca>
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hossers@Direct.CA (Randy Dufresne):
>Trying to figure out aproximately how many users on dumb
>terminals can FreeBSD support?
>Warning on the last part of the above paragraph taken, but just
>how many concurrent processes can FreeBSD handle?
Uhm, these are two different things: the number of users logging in
depends on the number of accessible tty's, the number of processes is
defined in the kernel.
With sysctl(8), I found the following value (which can be changed):
charm:~/News$ sysctl kern.maxproc
kern.maxproc = 1044
Check the manpage for more details.
robert