Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:05:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CHILD_MAX no longer valid in 2.2.5-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199710231805.LAA28160@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.971023084622.2752D-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> from "Guy Helmer" at Oct 23, 97 08:54:44 am
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> > 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)). Out of curiosity, what is the function of establishing a limit on rc itself, as opposed to only the things rc runs? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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