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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.radio.cz!CESspool!btnet-feed2!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: where is maxproc set initially? Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:32:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5eqghc$cch@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33075972.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36005 Vlad <roubtsov@uiuc.edu> wrote: > 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? It used to be set via CHILD_MAX in <sys/syslimits.h>. These days, it has been replaced to by an implementation of login classes (by David Nugent). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)