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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:30:13 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: max user processes
Message-ID:  <200001051630.RAA36713@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
In-Reply-To: <84uuml$vuk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>

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Alexey N. Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> 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

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