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Re: process limits



On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Marcin Inkielman wrote:

marn >does anybody know how may I force linux to run more than ~300-500
marn >processes

i thought ~100 was a lot :)

marn >fork fails in ~300 iteration

check ulimits (ulimit -a).  what kernel are you running?

marn >i would like it fails in for example 3000 iter.

may have to wait for 2.4 to do that..

check <kernel source root>/include/linux/limits.h  2.2 defaults to 1024
max processes (not sure if that is a hardcoded limit or not? i dont think
it is. you may have to change the other limits too..

nate

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