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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:54:44 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023084622.2752D-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971023030651.02177@crh.cl.msu.edu>

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

> 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

Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu
Iowa State University               http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer
Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory




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