Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:45:27 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE? Message-ID: <19971023104527.34841@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023084622.2752D-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>; from Guy Helmer on Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 08:54:44AM -0500 References: <19971023030651.02177@crh.cl.msu.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023084622.2752D-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
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On the subject of Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE?, Guy Helmer stated:
> > I've send CHILD_MAX to 512 on my news server, which (used) to have the
> > effect of making the default maximum procs set to 512.. Bonus. Under
> > 2.2.5-RELEASE it doesnt appear to be having any effect :( The only thing
> > I can think of is, its placement in the config file is order important, or
> > its no longer supported? If the latter, how do you effect the same change
> > in 2.2.5?
>
> init uses the "daemon" entry in /etc/login.conf to set process resource
> limits before executing /etc/rc; it appears to me that the "maxproc" entry
> (maxproc=256) is the one you need to adjust (see also login.conf(5) and
> getcap(3)).
>
> Hope that solves your problem, Guy
I'll give it a shot, thanks! Im wondering that perhaps the name login.conf is
a badly named file, especially if its more to do with userresources and
nothing to do with the login process. Someone should also take CHILD_MAX out
of LINT :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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