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Re: max number of processes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Apr 3 20:30:54 1995
To: sdfranks@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:17:02 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:30:26 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Is there any way I can increase the maximum number of processes? I
> believe it is 60 processes now.
This is normally controlled by an adjustable per-user resource limit;
try "unlimit maxproc" and see if that helps. It will only affect your
current shell and its children.
There may be a global process limitation, but it's certainly much
higher than 60.
