Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process

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From: Jon Skeet
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:00

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schaefer@alphanet.ch wrote:
> In ch.comp.os.linux Peter Neff <pn@mediatex.ch> wrote:
> > where can I define the maximal number of concurent processes on a linux
> > system?
> 
> To my knowledge, this is a kernel compile-time parameter (MAX_PROC or
> MAX_TASK), but I can't tell you where.
> 
> Alternavitely, on a per-user basis there is also a limit (man ulimit),
> that you can set upto MAX_TASK through ulimit (bash) or limit (*csh)

Just a quick addendum: I don't know about other distros, but mine (RH 5.1 
I believe) doesn't have a real man page for ulimit - just one claiming 
that it's an unimplemented system call. However, "help ulimit" (from 
within bash) is rather more useful.
-- 
Jon Skeet - skeet@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/

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From: skeet@pobox.com (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Maximal Number of Concurent Process
Date: 1999/08/05
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