From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 8:30:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D5E153D8 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA36713; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:30:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:30:13 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user processes X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Now, I issue 'sysctl kern.maxproc', which yields 'kern.maxproc: 276' > Cool so far. > But when I do 'ulimit -a|grep proc' gives me 'max user processes 275' > > Any comments? ``ulimit'' is a builtin command of your shell. You didn't say which shell you're using, so I can only guess that it reserves one process for some reason (maybe for itself?). Maybe having a look at the source code might be enlightening. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message