Re: maximum number of processes on kernel 2.4.x
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:58, Wayne Tucker wrote:
> The limit of 256 is coming from the `ulimit -s` command (bash). Just
> as a test, I also threw together a program to call getrlimit and
> display the result. Here's what I get:
>
> wayne@ironman:~$ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.4.17 (root@ironman) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian
> prerelease)) #1 Wed Jan 2 21:55:45 PST 2002 wayne@ironman:~$ ./showrlimit
> cur: 256 max: 4294967295
>
> (now I really understand what you mwant when you said that my system
> would be dead long before it got there ;)
The real limit isn't going to be 4 billion processes. That just means that
it won't be the ulimit stopping you.
As you've apparently noticed the limits are set by login programs. This
should only be a problem if you ssh into a machine to start a daemon, daemons
started by init should not have any such limits.
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