Re: max # of processes in debian testing
debian@clouded.org wrote:
> 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?
No, ulimit will not help you because linux has a hard limit on the
number of processes built into the kernel.
http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/general/kerneltuning.html
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