Re: max # of processes in debian testing

[debian@clouded.org]

Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what
about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem
is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail children at any
given time, but once it hits 300 I've got to unplug the network and wait
for those children to die before I can fork new processes, such as ps or
kill.

Would fixing this be as simple as sticking a ulimit command in my sendmail
init script or does sendmail fork off into it's own environment making
that useless?

I would try it right now but I only have those many sendmail processes a
few days out of the week. :)



On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Yven J. Leist wrote:

> On Monday 11 February 2002 19:19, debian@clouded.org wrote:
> > It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300
> > processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Oh, on i386. :)
> the maximum number of processes can be set with the ulimit command (man
> bash); to set this value you can simply put a line in your .bashrc or
> /etc/profile that says something like for instance "ulimit -u 1000".
> cheers,
> Yven
>