Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:15:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Dekkers <psd@worldaccess.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813121414.1131W-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970810173549.580A-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Why are there limits in processes? Don't have something like that under > linux as far as I know. There are limits in Linux, they're just set high. The limits are there since the kernel has to allocate space in it's internal tables. The limits are fairly arbitrary, they can be changed. > Isn't there an option to turn off all limits? the shell command 'ulimit' will sometimes do this. If you're on 2.2.2 then the login.conf restrictions are in place. See login.conf(5) for details in adjusting these limits. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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