Re: Maximum process limit confusion.

Tom Holroyd (tomh@taz.ccs.fau.edu)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:41:50 +0900 (JST)


On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Barrett G. Lyon wrote:

>In v2.0 kernels the maximum process limits could be edited in the limits.h
>file, with a re-compile it could be upped quickly. We migrated our Alphas
>to 2.2.0pre7ac4 and I can no longer find any information on how to up the
>max process limit. Is there a sysctl for this or is it done 'dynamically'?

setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, ...);

see "man setrlimit".

Dr. Tom Holroyd
I would dance and be merry,
Life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.
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