Re: system wide fix for 'max user processes'/RLIMIT_NPROC?
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> For whatever reason debian stable somewhere somehow defaults to a
> RLIMIT_NPROC (max user processes) of 256. This is fine for a desktop but
> absurd for a server. I have yet to find a good way to fix this, but I
> still don't see what is changing it. It should be something like 7000 on
> the machines I'm trying to fix it on, so something inside of debian is
> changing it. My unstable boxes do not show this behaviour (they come up
> with unlimited, which is fine for my servers except my shell server).
>
> I can't find where the heck this is getting set, nor even where to change
> it. Something is setting it different from the kernel default of
> max_threads / 2 (see kernel/fork.c) but i'll be deviled if i can find what.
> I can and do use pam_limits.so/limits.conf for logins, but for daemon
> startup I need to fix this and know it's not ending up at 256.
>
> any help/ideas?
/etc/pam.d pam_ulimit.so
/etc/security/limits.conf
Brian
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