From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 11:07:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21602 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (Central.TanSoft.COM [208.194.145.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA21597 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:07:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rwm@tansoft.com) Received: from Devious.TanSoft.COM (Devious.TanSoft.COM [208.194.145.10]) by Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA05894 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:06:42 -0500 Message-Id: <199802101906.OAA05894@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> X-Sender: rwm@central.TanSoft.COM X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:07:07 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rob Miracle Subject: Another wierd Kernel Question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We are having problems spawning more than 64 processes under a given ID. We have maxprocperuid set to 1043 (20 + 16*MAXUSERS)-1. One one machine it works fine, on another it limits us to 63. Both machines are running with identical CONFIG files and param.c files. MAXUSERS is set to 64. We have a small program that just spawns processes until it cant and reports the number of processes spawned that we use to test this. On the good machine, regardless of UID, it spawns out well over 900 processses as root, and over 1020 as a given non-root UID (depends on how many other processes are running). On the problem machine, root gets all 900+ processes. Non-root UID's only get 63. sysctl reports 1043 for kern.maxprocperuid. We are greatly confused. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message