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Subject: That G&*()m process limit
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 20:40:50 -0800
From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com>
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Ok.  I'm addicted.  I'm facing up to my addiction, I think I'm through
denial, but... why oh why, is the default RLIMIT_NPROC set so low???

I'm working on two years here, neveh' had to (re)set this.

With my current 2-CPU setup, fvwm and exmh get launched off a single
server, and apparently consume more than 100 child_proc PIDs apiece...

Jordan sets his to 400, maybe the default should be higher than 40?

Regards,
Russell