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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
Cc:        "'Steve Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: capping forks
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922211648.6177E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Rome?Lab%l=KEYWEST-970922130020Z-1855@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>

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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote:

> In the kernel you can set CHILD_MAX=<your number here>.  Ofcourse this 
> affects the entire system so Doug may have a better solution.

I couldn't think of anything offhand.  I'm not familiar with the login
capabilities database though, there is a ``maxproc'' item that could be
used to limit the number of childs.  This would be user-wide and not
overridable very easily.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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