From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 12:55:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A9437B406 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 2B87616B13 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:55:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AF169BCC0128; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:03:34 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010629215458.03a2e468@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:56:47 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: increasing kern.maxproc In-Reply-To: <20010629152528.W803-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010629205316.029bac00@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >kern.maxproc cannot be changed. It is a read-only variable. If you need >to up this, change the maxusers option in your kernel config, and >recompile. For my busy systems, I up maxusers to 256 which gives me 4116 >maxproc's. You should decide what works for you. I thought the read-only´s were available in /boot/loader.conf ? >maxprocperuid can be changed via sysctl. It's allowable values are < >maxproc. hmmm mgw1# sysctl -a | grep kern\.maxproc kern.maxproc: 532 kern.maxprocperuid: 1000 Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message