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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:29:16 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern.maxproc
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010701213843.02e428c8@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:40:56PM +0200
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> > > Do I have to install the source and recompile?
> >
> >No, put it to /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> Well, opionions are extremely varied on this one :)))

They shouldn't be. From sysctl(8),

     Name                            Type          Changeable
     ...                             ...           ...
     kern.maxproc                    integer       no

And if we go to the code,

  $ grep -w maxproc /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_mib.c
  SYSCTL_INT(_kern, KERN_MAXPROC, maxproc, CTLFLAG_RD, 
      &maxproc, 0, "Maximum number of processes");

Note the 'CTLFLAG_RD;' it's read-only.

You need to recompile to change it.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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